Meet Dr. Andrea Mitnick
Dr. Dr. Mitnick is an experienced trainer in platform presentation skills, interpersonal communication skills, team skills, leadership development, and gender communication. She has conducted workshops for a variety of organizations, including ARCO Chemical, The Franklin Mint, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter, New York State Electric and Gas, ConEd, MichCon and the Sheet Metal Workers of North America. She is a consultant with the Center for Generational Studies in Denver, Colorado, and presents workshops nationally around the topic of generational diversity in the workforce.
She is an Associate Professor at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania teaching presentation skills, Public Relations Techniques, and Crisis Communication, as well as Leadership Communication. Previously an Assistant Professor of Communication at Penn State University, she won the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 1995. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from Temple University, and her research on a wide
range of topics has been published in both journals and textbooks. Most recently she has been writing about generational differences in the construction trades. She has presented more than twenty-three juried papers at national and international conferences since arriving at Kutztown University in 1995.
A former Junior Olympic gold medalist in swimming, Dr. Mitnick now swims for pleasure, lifts weights, and walks. She has lived and taught in Switzerland, and continues to travel extensively in Europe, China and the Pacific Rim, Mexico and North America. In the Fall of 2000, summer of 2004 and most recently Fall 2009 she served as a faculty member with the program Semester at Sea. She lived and worked on board the SS Universe Explorer, a floating University taking over six hundred students and 22 faculty around the world for 100 days. She taught Intercultural Communication, Public Speaking, and leadership development and strategic communication.
Three times – 2002, 2003, and 2005 she has taught Crisis Management and Communication at the Diplomatic Institute in Moscow, Russia. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 2007 to do work at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow, Russia.
She and a colleague, Dr. William F. Maloney, Director of The Center for Labor Education and Research and The Raymond Shaver Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky have done supervisory training for the Sheet Metal industry, as well as training in supervision, leadership and preventing discriminatory practices for The South Central Workforce Investment Board of central Pennsylvania, as well as various union locals and apprenticeship programs.