Krista L.

Bryson
Oklahoma City, OK krista@kristabryson.com www.kristabryson.com
614.286.4500
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Nonprofit Director of Development. Academic program director and administrator. Researcher, writer, and editor.
University instructor in writing and digital media. Public speaker. Digital activist. Documentary filmmaker.
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Director of Development

The Education and Employment Ministry

2015

Responsible for fundraising, grant writing, event planning, and supervising communications coordinator.
PhD Candidate, English

The Ohio State University

2010-May 2015

Specialization: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy

Dissertation: A Regional Rhetoric for Activism in Appalachia

Conducted field, archival, and academic research and am writing a book-length dissertation.
Wrote 2 published articles and 4 grant proposals.
Awarded a total of $65,000 from the National Science Foundation and Governors Office of Appalachia.
Composed and delivered 15 multimedia research presentations at national academic conferences.
Designed and delivered 13 invited presentations and workshops for university programs and conferences.

Graduate Research Associate

Department of English

2014-2015

Designed an activist digital media project West Virginia Water Crisis Blog, www.wvwatercrisis.com to tell
the stories of 300,000 West Virginians affected by chemical spill.
Filmed and published an emergency public health and safety video with environmental engineers who were
testing water in homes that was linked in a New York Times article and other renowned news media.
Creating a documentary film and academic research project on the social aspects of the water crisis.
Presented a film excerpt (10 min.) of my documentary-in-progress, West Virginia Water Crisis, at the 2014
West Virginia International Film Festival.
Provided footage from film for a LiveScience.com news story to be aired online and on PBS.

Co-Director

The Appalachian Project

2013-2014

The Appalachian Project is a state and university-funded interdisciplinary initiative to understand factors influencing
Appalachian Ohio students choice to attend college.

Trained graduate and undergraduate students in research methods, interviewing, digital production, and
post-production for an ethnographic film.
Led project planning meetings and maintained member records and communications.
Developed undergraduate student training retreat and taught field research methods and videography.
Produced a 40-minute video ethnography for the Governors Office of Appalachia.
Organized, fundraised, and publicized a documentary film screening and directors discussion of Hollow.

Graduate Teaching Associate

Department of English

2011-2014

Digital Media Composing (2 sections): Designed and taught a course focusing on digital activism with
image, audio, video, and web production. Students used digital still cameras, video recorders, and audio
recorders. In post-production, students learned Photoshop, Audacity, iMovie, and Dreamweaver,
Wordpress, and Twitter. Taught 64 class periods, graded 252 digital projects and 198 papers.
English Composition (4 sections): Designed and taught courses focusing on expository and research
writing. Taught 120 class periods, graded 620 papers, presentations, and portfolios.

Graduate Administrative Assistant

Digital Media Project

2012-2013

Digital media software and hardware workshops: Planned and delivered 10 workshops for students.
Maintained and solved technology problems for 5 digital media classrooms, graduate laboratory, and digital
media recording equipment.

Associate Director

Digital Media and Composition Institute

2011-2013

DMAC is an annual, nationally-renowned, intensive, two-week digital media workshop. Professors and graduate
students from academic institutions across the country attend to learn how to produce and teach digital media.

Managed 15 program assistants, instructors, and guest lecturers.

Handled correspondence, registration, funding, lodging, meals, and entertainment for 60 participants.
Maintained yearly budget of $75,000.
Held weekly curriculum and event planning meetings with directors throughout the academic year.
Developed instructional materials and supervised digital equipment check-outs and maintenance.
Fulfilled daily workshop needs of participants, instructors, and directors.

Graduate Research Assistant

LiteracyStudies@OSU

2011-2012

LiteracyStudies@OSU is an interdisciplinary initiative directed by renowned literacy scholar, Dr. Harvey Graff.

Conducted research for in-progress book project and assisted in course planning for Dr. Graff.
Redesigned and coded Dr. Graffs professional website.
Organized 12 well-attended Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminars as GradSem co-chair, which included
developing monthly topics; selecting readings; finding and inviting presenters; promoting events; and
developing student, faculty, and staff interest and long-term relationships.
Co-founded and chaired the Literacy in Appalachia GradGroup; organized and led planning and research
meetings; developed student, faculty, and staff relationships at OSU and nationally; hosted guest lectures
and workshops; developed a writing group, organized social events, and maintained the group blog.

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Selected Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

Alice Paul Award for Social Justice Engagement (Office of Student Life)
Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Graduate Work (Department of English)
Outstanding Research Mentor (Undergraduate Research Office)
Corbett Fellowship (Department of English)
National Science Foundation RAPID Grant, $50,000, West Virginia Water Crisis research
The Governors Office of Appalachia Grant, $15,000, The Appalachian Project
Batelle Engineering, Technology, and Human Affairs Travel Grant
University Fellowship

2014
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2010

Selected Publications
Emancipating Adult Illiterates: Conflicted Rhetorics of Identity in the Kentucky Moonlight Schools. ReReading Appalachia: Literacies of Resistance. Ed. Kim Donehower and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus.
University of Kentucky Press. In press. Print.
The Literacy Myth in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Computers and Composition 29.3 (2012):
254-68. Print.
Selected Press
Kloc, Joe. West Virginias Water Fallout. Newsweek. 26 February 2014.
Dizard, Wilson. Obamas Failure to Mention the Water Crisis Disappoints West Virginians. Al Jazeera
America. 29 January 2014.
Technological Skills

Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver, HTML5, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Audacity, GarageBand,
iMovie, MovieCaptioner, Wordpress, Blogger, Microsoft Office Suite, Mac OS X