Rachel Italiano serves as a Research & Communications Associate at NVisions. She has more than a decade of experience in journalism, foundation support/donor relations, and public communications. Rachel also specializes in media, public affairs, and qualitative and quantitative research. She is finishing up her doctoral degree in Media & Public Affairs at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Prior to this, she obtained her master’s in communication professions & society from Marquette University and a bachelors in communicative arts from Wisconsin Lutheran College.