Graduate Student Directory

Meet our COMM Studies Graduate Students!

Current graduate students within our program focus on specific areas of communication research. Some also teach courses in our TA program and serve as members within the department COMM Student Association (CSA). 

Below is a full directory complete with contact information. Please feel free to connect and network with our current graduate students!

  Graduate Students Contact
A photo of Matthew Aldea Matthew Aldea

matthew.aldea@sjsu.edu

Spartan David Amancio

david.amancio@sjsu.edu

mark Mark Aziz

mark.aziz@sjsu.edu

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Spencer Choate

Teaching Associate

spencer.choate@sjsu.edu

Wenesdays 9am - 10am via Zoom

spartan Ethan Hardgrave

ethan.hardgrave@sjsu.edu

spartan Oresti Hernandez

oresti.hernandez@sjsu.edu

spartan Maxfield Hunt 

maxfield.hunt@sjsu.edu

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Chloe Huynh

Teaching Associate

chloe.huynh@sjsu.edu

Tuesdays 11am - 11:30am 

Thursdays 11am - 11:30am

or by appointment via Zoom

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Shayla Kennedy

Organizational Communication

shayla.kennedy@sjsu.edu

Darren

Darren Ko

Intercultural Communication

darren.ko@sjsu.edu

LinkedIn

tyler Tyler Kyte 

tyler.kyte@sjsu.edu

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Eric Martinez 

Critical Intercultural Communication

eric.martinez@sjsu.edu

spartan Athena Paletta 

athena.paletta@sjsu.edu

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Mandish Sandu

Interpersonal and Critical Intercultural Communication

mandish.sandu@sjsu.edu

LinkedIn

spartan Nima Samya 

nima.samya@sjsu.edu

monica Monica Silveira

monica.siveira@sjsu.edu

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Meghan Sterk

Performance Ethnography Methods

meghan.sterk@sjsu.edu

LinkedIn

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Julie Terebkov

Teaching Associate

Social Justice, Trauma Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy, and Autoethnography

julie.terebkov@sjsu.edu

Wenesdays 10am - 11am

via Zoom

LinkedIn

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Alejandro Torres

Critical Intercultural Communication

alejandro.torres@sjsu.edu

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Michael Wang 

Health and Organizational Communication

michael.wang@sjsu.edu

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Leigh Via

Teaching Associate

leigh.via@sjsu.edu

Thursdays 4:30pm - 5:30pm Via Zoom