Stefanie leads UMC's communications team, including news and media relations, social
media, and brand communications staff.
Her professional background includes experience in higher education administration
and instruction, law, government relations, and writing and editing.
She enjoys hiking, writing, and spending time with family and friends.
School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
About Allison
She focuses on writing new stories about Michigan Tech research -- everything from
robotic prostheses to mesocosms to the physics of raindrops.
A University of Montana graduate, she earned a master's degree in environmental science
and natural resource journalism, which built on her bachelor's in geoscience from
Northland College.
She's a radio geek.
Kelley Christensen
Science Writer and Project Strategist, University Marketing and Communications
She writes about Michigan Tech research and serves as communications liaison to the
Great Lakes Research Center and Michigan Tech Research Institute. She's also a member
of the university social media team.
Her career includes writing for small-town newspapers in Montana and working as a
public information officer, an events coordinator, and science editor for an IEEE
publication, Earthzine.
The former Daily Mining Gazette journalist and editor hails from Houghton and has
written for a variety of international, national and regional publications.
Specializing in feature writing, she co-creates, writes, and edits content for the
University, from web pages and Michigan Tech Magazine stories to social media.
A novelist active in the Upper Peninsula Authors and Publishers Association, the Authors
Guild member looks forward to writing more books—and to camping trips in her RV with
husband Scott and Goldendoodle Max.
