CCI - Key Persons
Abebe Rorissa
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Director of the School of Information Sciences
arorissa@utk.edu
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- SVP, People & Culture / Discovery, Inc.
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- Principal & Founder / Alisa Harrison & Associates, LLC
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- Member of the RIC Standing
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- Member of the RIC Standing
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- Retired Founder / Information International Associates
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- Partner in Charge / Government Team Leader / Adams & Reese LLP
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- Senior Marketing Development Manager
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- Chairman / the Tombras Group
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- Executive Director / Common Wealth Charlotte, Inc.
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- Interim Director, School of Journalism and Electronic Media
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- Dean of Libraries and Professor, College of Computing and Informatics
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- Retired Chairman & Founder / Bohan
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- President / New Lantern Partners
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- Director of the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations
Elizabeth Avery Foster
Director of the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations
ejavery@utk.edu
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- Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I, MS, PR )
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- Deputy General Counsel
- Senior Vice President
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- Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I PhD, CS )
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- Nonprofit Digital Marketing Strategist
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- HR Leader / North America University
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- Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I PhD, SIS )
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- Chief Executive Officer ( Retired ) the Regional Eye Center
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- Director of the School of Communication Studies
Jon Hess
Director of the School of Communication Studies
jonhess@utk.edu
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- Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs & Advising
- Ex - Officio
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- Member of the RIC Standing
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- Founder & Chief Executive Officer / Watauga Group
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- Chairman / Knoxville Pinnacle Financial Partners
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- Member of the RIC Standing
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- Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I PhD, PR )
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- President / Research America Inc.
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- Librarian of Virginia / Library of Virginia
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- Graduate Student Association, President ( C & I, PhD, ADPR )
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- Senior Client Success Lead
Land's philanthropic support of the College of Communication and Information, comes in the form of a bequest to establish the Land Family Communications Endowed Scholarship and to fund the Land CCI Ambassadors Program.
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- Chairman
- Associate Dean for Research
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- Partner, Director of Operations & Client Development
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- Marketing Manager / Rothschild & Co
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- Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I, PhD, CS )
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
- Ex - Officio