Byars, Queenie
Assistant professor
M.A., University of Northern Colorado, GreeleyGraduate, Air War College
Graduate, Air Command and Staff College
A.B., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Assistant professor Queenie Byars teaches public relations courses and serves as the diversity coordinator for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Byars is also the director for the Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media. She joined the faculty in 2008.
She has a background in public affairs in the federal government and public relations consulting. In addition to starting a public relations consulting firm in Northern Virginia she managed the aerospace awards program for a national nonprofit association. Byars served as a lieutenant colonel and public affairs officer at the base, major command and Air Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She held assignments in Texas, Florida, Honduras, Japan and the Pentagon. Byars’ military service awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and Joint Service Commendation Medal.
Her creative activity and research interest is focused on advancing support for diversity in higher education broadly and in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She co-authored the chapter “Faculty Diversity Must Be the Culture of the Campus” in Diversity That Works and wrote essays on the lives of Patricia Roberts Harris and Marion Wright Edelman for Great Lives from History: African Americans. She blogs about diversity issues in journalism at diversityspeak.org.
Byars has participated in numerous professional writing competitions judging journalism and public relations writing and communication programs.
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