Angela Bradbery is a university professor in Public Interest Communications at a major university’s school of Journalism and Communications. Before coming to the university in 2020, she spent more than 20 years in public interest communications and advocacy at Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., As communications director there, she developed and implemented communication strategies at the national, state and local levels and led communication planning and implementation for coalitions of allied public interest organizations. In 2003, Bradbery co-founded Smokefree DC, a nonprofit, all-volunteer membership organization that achieved the passage of landmark smoke-free workplace legislation in Washington, D.C., in 2006. Before moving to Washington, she worked for 10 years as a newspaper reporter at The Palm Beach Post, the Sun-Sentinel and the Chicago Tribune.