A bit about me.
As a Communication and Media Studies scholar, Beck Banks specializes in transgender media and transgender/queer rurality. Originally from Dolly Parton country, Beck is curious about how rural-based trans media activists understand and work within their communities as well as how they are received by them. To boot, they examine trans television representation and its activist efforts - or the performance of those. Beck is a practitioner-scholar who teams with activist groups and companies to create the representation they would like to see in the world.
Beck is the Assistant Professor of Communications at Warren Wilson College. They obtained their PhD in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Oregon, their MA in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and their BA in Journalism at Webster University. In addition to their education, they spent several years working in communications and higher education administration.