Roberta (Bobbie) Mitchell is a lecturer in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University. Previously, she taught at Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Columbia College (SC), and Northwestern University; served as a mediator for the Attorney General’s Office of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Americans with Disabilities Program, and the DC Superior Court; and practiced law in Boston. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from Northwestern University.