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About
With several years of experience in the professional communications field, Puglisi is a public relations consultant who has won several awards for her contributions to the public relations field where she has worked in a variety of sectors. Her public speaking and public relations portfolio classes at American University have won recognition from several communications institutions within the Washington, D.C. area. Puglisi currently serves as the faculty advisor to the American University Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter and a contributing member to the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and its affiliate Washington, D.C. professional chapter.

Education
Puglisi attended Trinity University-Washington where she earned a B.A. in music with a concentration in piano. She graduated first in the class of 1978 with a Magna Cum Laude Latin honors award. Puglisi was also a member of the choral society at Trinity and was awarded the T-Pin student award.

Puglisi earned her M.A. in drama at The Catholic University of America, where she was given the opportunity to teach and perform in Poznan, Poland following her graduation.

Career[edit]
In 2013, Puglisi served as a panelist in a PR Week feature where she commented on the competitive nature of the public relations industry and provided tips and suggestions on how students could better prepare themselves for the professional field with internships.

At the 2019 PRSA International Conference in San Diego, California, Puglisi was a keynote speaker in the seminar "Shared Challenges: Educators and Practitioners Unite on Ethics, Diversity, Dialogue and Adjunct Teaching." There, she lectured on new innovate resources available for public relations professionals to reference when dealing with issues of diversity, ethics, and writing in the public relations industry.

Puglisi currently works as an assistant professor of public relations and strategic communications at the School of Communications at American University where she teaches public speaking and the public relations and strategic communications capstone portfolio. She has been teaching since 2003.

Academic and Professional Works
Puglisi is the author of a number of academic works, including her own textbook Public Relations Campaigns and Portfolio Building, which details how students can build their own professional public relations portfolio. Public Relations Campaigns and Portolio Building draws from various case studies and examples within the public relations industry in order to demonstrate how to plan and implement a full strategic public relations plan, manage multiple clients, and measuring and delivering final results.

Puglisi is the co-author of the article Disruption in PR Education: Online Master’s Degree Programs in Public Relations and Strategic Communication, a research study that looks at the various online public relations and strategic communications programs offered by universities throughout the United States. It was written in conjunction with American University professors Paula L. Weissman, Dario Bernardini, and Joesph Graf. It is the first comprehensive study of its design.

Puglisi's other notable academic works include two book reviews on How Student Journalists Report Campus Unrest by Professor Kaylene Dial Armstrong and Talking About Torture: How Political Discourse Shapes Debate by Professor Jared Del Russo. Puglisi is also the author of several commentary pieces that have been featured in Women's Media Center and The Washington Post.