Ann Searight Christiano

Ann is the founder and director of the Center for Public Interest Communications and a clinical professor in the Department of Public Relations at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, USA. The Center works with organizations around the world to bring social, behavioral and cognitive science to complex communications challenges. Before coming to the University of Florida in 2010, Searight was a senior communications officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, directing communications for programs that address social factors like housing, education and mental health that drive health and wellbeing.