Catherine Becker, PhD, is an author and associate professor at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, where she teaches courses in sustainability and leadership, relational, family, and organizational communication. Her research and creative work explore the ways that communication contributes to the transformation of individuals, systems, and cultures. It crosses methodological and disciplinary lines, forges connections that didn’t exist previously, to encourage new paradigms, perspectives, and possibilities.
Her book and card set, Mana Cards: The Power of Hawaiian Wisdom, has been published in several languages. Mana Cards interweaves images and symbols with stories from Hawaii with insightful teachings designed to foster new perspectives and empowering connections. You can learn more about it at www.manacards.com.
She is about to publish a new book, The Mother Road: A Black Market Baby, A Motorcycle, A Search for Real Across Un-United States, a memoir about authenticity. When she was nineteen, shortly after finding out she was a black market baby, she set out to search for her natural mother, mother nature, and to escape working-class life in Buffalo by riding a motorcycle across the United States. Resenting the lies and secrets that surrounded her real identity, along with the society that sanctions them, she explored alternatives to mainstream religion and culture in the United States. Moving between myth and reality in the American landscape and beyond, a series of signs and synchronicities led her to discover who she is and who she could become.
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About Catherine Becker, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication, Univeristy of Hawaii, Hilo
Catherine Becker is an associate professor of communication at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Her research examines the ways that communication contributes to the transformation of individuals and systems, for example, organizational, cultural, or family systems. She explores the ways communication is linked to transformation using quantitative, qualitative, and creative approaches. Read more...
Professing Change
by Jessica Kirkwood
Her book and card set, Mana Cards: The Power of Hawaiian Wisdom, has been published in several languages. Mana Cards interweaves images and symbols with stories from Hawaii with insightful teachings designed to foster new perspectives and empowering connections. You can learn more about it at www.manacards.com.
She is about to publish a new book, The Mother Road: A Black Market Baby, A Motorcycle, A Search for Real Across Un-United States, a memoir about authenticity. When she was nineteen, shortly after finding out she was a black market baby, she set out to search for her natural mother, mother nature, and to escape working-class life in Buffalo by riding a motorcycle across the United States. Resenting the lies and secrets that surrounded her real identity, along with the society that sanctions them, she explored alternatives to mainstream religion and culture in the United States. Moving between myth and reality in the American landscape and beyond, a series of signs and synchronicities led her to discover who she is and who she could become.
About Catherine Becker, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication, Univeristy of Hawaii, Hilo
Catherine Becker is an associate professor of communication at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Her research examines the ways that communication contributes to the transformation of individuals and systems, for example, organizational, cultural, or family systems. She explores the ways communication is linked to transformation using quantitative, qualitative, and creative approaches. Read more...
Professing Change
by Jessica Kirkwood
As humanity faces ecological degradation, increasing social and economic inequality and a growing sense of fear, dissatisfaction and unrest, UH-Hilo Professor Dr. Catherine Becker wants her students to imagine and create a Hawai‘I that is environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually uplifting. She is purely their facilitator, their guide. Read more...
Academic CV
Education
Becker earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Communication from State University of New York at Buffalo. She also earned Master of Arts in American studies from UH Mānoa, a Master of Arts in Communication from S.U.N.Y Buffalo, and a B.S. in Liberal Studies from Buffalo State College.
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