Ruth M. Gonchar Brennan, Ph.D. maintains her interest in politics and political communication even though she no longer teaches in the discipline. Currently, Brennan maintains a human resource consulting practice, including staffing/assessment, human resource research and organization redesign, culture/climate analysis and industry best practices. Last year, she visited her foreign service daughter and son-in-law in Sierra Leone and taught business seminars at the University of Sierra Leone graduate school and at the US Embassy. In addition to her daughter, Brennan has a son who works as a planned giver for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Brennan lives in Madison, CT. She can be reached at drruthb@aol.com. And, yes, she is known as "Dr. Ruth."