With a background in media communications, business management, and psychology, Dr. Rutledge is the Director of the Media Psychology Research Center. She is a speaker, writer, researcher, consultant, adjunct faculty at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Fielding Graduate University, an instructor of media psychology in the UCLA Extension program, and an instructor of social media audience profiling and transmedia storytelling in the UC Irvine Extension School of Business and Law’s Internet and social media certificate program. She has provided assessments and guidance to individuals and organizations drawing on her broad background in media communications and visual design, business strategy, and the psychology of cognition, attitudes, persuasion, and perception.