Brittany L. Peterson (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is an associate professor in the School of Communication Studies and the Director of E-Learning for the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. She aims to understand (and upend assumptions surrounding) the communicative construction of membership in organizations. Her scholarship investigates varied experiences including involuntary membership, “high stakes” and traditional voluntary membership, and stigmatized membership with an eye toward agency, ownership, tension, identity, narrative, empowerment, and community. Dr. Peterson’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Monographs, Health Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly, and Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly as well as in edited books.