Academia - As an instructor, I teach undergraduates in the Department of Communication & Journalism and cadets at the Hollingsworth Center for Ethical Leadership. I am an Organizational Communication scholar with a research focus on resilience for individuals, organizations, and communities through empirical research strategies and the production of heroic narratives. Using hermeneutic phenomenology, my dissertation project was a multi-modal endeavor that included both the traditional written document and full-length documentary film that analyze the strategies to bolster the conditions of resilience of one church in small town America against the backdrop of the declining church as an institution in the United States. The findings offer tangible techniques to reinvigorate congregations in the traditional rural and suburban settings where populations and resources may be limited.