Dr. Victoria Ledford (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an assistant professor of health communication in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University. There, she conducts research and teaches on topics related to stigma, health, and mediated communication. She has published peer reviewed research in top academic journals spanning the fields of health, medicine, and psychology, including Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, Stigma and Health, and Patient Education and Counseling. As a professor, she has also collaborated on grant-funded research projects totalling nearly $2 million in total funding. She is a quantitative methods expert and specializes in experimental and survey methods—which is why she teaches the quantitative methods course for Auburn’s master’s in communication program. She enjoys mentoring students, and her favorite part of the research process is that moment when you first start to see the results of a study and realize how much more there is to learn.