Deleasa Randall-Griffiths, Ph.D. is a educator and storyteller based in Ohio. She won Ashland University’s Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award (2020) and the Ohio Communication Association’s Innovative Teacher Award (2012). She is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Ashland University. She teaches wide range of communication course. Her research interests include family narratives, historical performance, and storytelling. She received her B.A. from Indiana University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She co-chairs the Ashland Chautauqua Planning Committee which brings history alive through performance. Her performance work includes suffragist, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Secretary of Labor under FDR, Frances Perkins. She also wrote and directed three local history performances for the Ashland Chautauqua utilizing archival research and oral history.
Deleasa Randall-Griffiths, Ph.D. 