Student Information
Graduate Student
Journalism and Mass Communication
Cronkite School-Journ/MassComm
Long Bio
Kris Vera-Phillips is an instructor and a Ph.D. candidate at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She is also an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 14 years of experience producing news shows and special projects. She serves as Communication Chair for the Commission on Graduate Education for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She served on the national board of the Asian American Journalists Association. She mentors student journalists with AAJA Voices, NPR’s Next Generation Radio Fellowship, and PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs.
Education
Bachelor's of Arts, American Studies. University of California, Berkeley
Master's of Science, Journalism. Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Research Interests
Identity, representation, and power in news media and popular culture.
Publications
Kwon, H., Vera-Phillips, K., Moon, Y. E., Shao, C., & Xu, W. W. (2024). Credible, but Not for Me: Immigrant Folk Theories of News Trust in Chinese, Korean, and Filipino Communities in the US. Journalism Practice, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2340526
Vera-Phillips, K. (2022). Southwest, Filipina/x/o Americans in the. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (Vol. 2, pp. 898-900). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071828960
Courses
2024 Summer
2024 Spring
2023 Fall
2023 Summer
2023 Spring
2022 Fall
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
2020 Spring