Philomena Williams

(he/him)

Graduate Student, M.A. Communication Studies
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Public Speaking Instructor
Graduate Coaching Assistant, Forensics Coach
philomena@ksu.edu
Campus Office: 316A Nichols Hall

 

"Speak your truth, lead with love."

 

Education

B.S., Education and Human Sciences, University of Lincoln, Nebraska

Teaching

Public Speaking 1 (COMM 106)

Biographical Information

Philomena got his undergraduate degree in Secondary Education at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he competed and coached on the Speech team. Philomena takes pride in being a first gen student, and advocates for the inclusion and support for non-traditional students of any kind, having been one himself.

Career

Philomena is passionate about empowering students with the critical thinking, and analytic skills that come with public speaking and performance. Philomena works to investigate what he calls the ‘cogs’ of communication, which lie in the analysis of rhetoric within communities. He believes that it is important to resist taking any form of communication at face value, as there is so much more to be learned about our internalized societal values when we investigate them.