Judy graduated from the University of South Florida in 2004, having worked with Gary Olson and Lynn Worsham in the Rhetoric and Composition program. Since then she has been teaching in the school of Communication at High Point University in the beautiful state of North Carolina. Coming out of a rhetorical and cultural studies perspective, Judy enjoys teaching a wide range of courses in communication and rhetorical theory, media theory and production, cultural studies and popular culture, visual rhetoric, women and gender studies, race studies, hip-hop culture, and African-American literature. Her research and puplications have examined audio rhetoric, hip-hop theorists, Zora Neale Hurston, whiteness studies, Generation X, West African drumming, African Americans and radio, and women and music. In her free time (!), Judy enjoys loving on her family, writing, reading, yoga, painting, dancing, drumming, hiking, camping, and weekend-long music fests out in the mountains!