Anastacia Kurylo received her doctorate from Rutgers University and has taught interpersonal communication as well as public speaking, organizational communication, and communication theory  for over 15 years at a variety of schools including New York University, Rutgers University, St. Joseph’s College, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

She is a subject matter expert in interpersonally communicated stereotypes. She has produced over 25 publications including teaching activities, book reviews, encyclopedia entries, blind-peer reviewed research articles, book chapters, and five books. In addition to Building Your Social World: Constructing Reality through Interpersonal Communication, Anastacia has published an intercultural communication textbook titled Inter/Cultural Communication: Representation and Construction of Culture. Her three other books are The Communicated Stereotype: From Media to Everyday Talk, Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out?, and Redefining Communication in the Era of Social Networking: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives.

Anastacia Kurylo is former President of the New York State Communication Association and of the New Jersey Communication Association. She was the founding chair of the Board of Trustees of The Quad Preparatory School and former President of the New York Chapter of the Tri-State Diversity Council.

Dr. Kurylo is founder and CEO of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit called Inform Your Community (https://www.informyourcmmunity.org) and currently teaches part-time at Brooklyn College in New York City.