Sharon Varallo

Dr. Sharon Varallo, Executive Director of the Augustana Prison Education Program, is a professor of Communication Studies at Augustana College with special interest in intercultural communication and the cultural study of time. During her career, she has published work on the scholarship of teaching and learning and on interpersonal and family communication topics. She has taught and accompanied students in numerous off-campus programs including in China, Japan, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and the wilderness of Holden Village in Washington’s Cascade mountains. Intercultural experiences have greatly aided her current work bringing college into prison.