Teaching Professor Andrea Otáñez is an educator, journalist and creative writer who has developed college curriculum in journalism, communication and difference, communication studies, writing with voice, and Chicano studies. Before joining the UW faculty in 2013, she worked as an assistant metro editor, reporter and columnist at The Seattle Times, The Salt Lake Tribune and other publications.
She holds a master’s degree in English/American Studies from the University of Utah, where she studied the American West and Mexican-American culture through a critical cultural lens. She also worked as an acquisitions editor at the University of New Mexico Press, focusing on Chicano fiction and memoir. Find more out about her here: Andrea Otáñez’s UW Communication faculty profile.
Her teaching focuses on critiques of journalistic and communicative practices that do harm in communities historically limited to narrow narratives in the mainstream. Her public scholarship focuses on building relationships between community-news outlets and the academy in order to shore up healthy communication networks founded in ethical reporting practices.
