Dr. Clemencia Rodríguez is Full Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. In her book titled Fissures in the Mediascape: An International Study of Citizens' Media (2001), Rodríguez developed her "citizens' media theory," a ground-breaking approach to understanding the role of community/alternative media in our societies. Currently she continues to explore how people living in the shadow of armed groups use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the Internet, to shield their communities from armed violence's negative impacts. This has involved fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. In her recent book, Citizens' Media Against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) she reports many of her findings. She continues to teach in the areas of international communication, social change, and gender. In her spare time she explores Oklahoma's back roads in search for good spots for trout fishing. She goes back home to her native Colombia any chance she gets.