Kelly Mendoza
Chair, Membership Committee

Kelly Mendoza is a Doctoral Candidate in the Mass Media and Communication Program at Temple University. She currently is an Instructor at Ursinus College and a Research Associate at the Media Education Lab Her research interests include digital media and children, media literacy and parents, and the effect of media on the parent-child relationship. In her dissertation research, Mendoza is exploring how parents use protectionist and empowerment strategies to manage their preteen’s Internet use.

Mendoza has produced media education curriculum materials for teachers, children, and parents. She helped produce the Growing Up Online teacher and parent guide for PBS Frontline; Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21^st Century Civic Engagement for PBS Teachers; the Common Sense Schools program for Common Sense Media; and My Pop Studio, an media literacy game site for preteen girls.  She also provides media literacy education workshops for children, teachers, and parents.

She is the recipient of the 2007 Media Smart Research Award from Cable in the Classroom.

Mendoza holds an undergraduate degree in Communication and Visual Arts from Regis University and a master’s degree in Communication from the University of Colorado at Denver.