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Linda D. Manning, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Communication at Christopher Newport University. She earned a BA in French and Comparative Area Studies from Duke University, a MA in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Human Communication from the University of Denver. Her research considers how families use narrative as a sense-making device for major life events. In particular, she has studied how families construct a shared identity in the context of visible adoption and how families navigate a new normal in the face of life-threatening illness. An emerging aspect of her research centers sustainability and how families, neighborhoods, and higher education institutions frame sustainability issues. She has been published in the Communication Teacher, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, and Perspective, Women’s Studies in Communication, and several edited books. She was recently appointed director of the Center for Sustainability in Education at Christopher Newport University.