Aimée Knight

Change Agent, Educator/Teacher, World traveler, Writer/Editor

I am a digital media studies professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. My department is devoted to fostering social change via emerging communication technologies. I am founder and co-director of a civic media collaborative which runs research projects in social media and web consultancy, training, and community engagement free of charge with nonprofits in the Philadelphia area. I am also involved in the community as a TEDxPhiladelphia event organizer.

I founded the Beautiful Social Research Collaborative in 2010. This civic media lab partners with nonprofit and community-based organizations in Philadelphia to conduct research that enhances efforts to promote social change via emerging communication technologies. To date, we have completed over 80 community-engaged research projects. If you would like to chat about this work, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

My research focuses on working with communities to design, implement and evaluate digital media approaches with an aim to advance transformative change efforts. My current book project is about how we can empower changemaking in communities by partnering digital media students with local nonprofits.

Communication Design, Education, New Media + Emerging Technology, RhetoricComposition, Visual Aesthetics

In 2010 I organized TEDx SJU Change the World with my students. In 2014 I was the license holder and producer for TEDxPhiladelphia "The New Workshop of the World." In 2018 I'm working with a great team of people to bring TEDxPhiladelphia back.

I have a daily Qigong practice.