Join us for a chat with Dr. Julie Christen, a Learning Experience Designer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hosted by Anuj Gupta, PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona and a DRC Fellow, this episode covers Julie’s journey from academia (where she did a PhD specialising rhetoric, writing, UX, and technical communication) to Amazon (where she designs learning content for cloud application developers). Julie and Anuj talk about how to transfer academic skills that rhetoric, composition, and technical communication students possess to industry contexts. Specifically Julie sheds light on the importance of instructions and tutorials in digital writing based human…
Author: Cristal Gamez
Anuj Gupta
Cristal Gamez has an M.A. in English - Rhetoric and Composition & Literature from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She has been an Assistant Director & Lecturer of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center (WMC) since August 2022. In her current role, she coordinates all of the WMC’s writing and multiliteracy workshops and oversees the training of all tutors. During her off time, she enjoys exploring new coffee shops and hanging out with her cats, Eevee & Link.