Jordan Pugh's Portfolio
Professional Communication
This section highlights my most "excellent and pitch-perfect" professional email correspondence, as my former internship supervisor praised. I communicated with national, state, and University-level entities to promote the work of the Appalachian Prison Book Project. My communications with Mary Gould, Director of the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, and Beth Staley, WVU English Professor, involved a request on my behalf, requiring that I use assertive communication to convey my message directly and respectfully. Nonprofit work, in particular, values concise correspondence because activists are typically operating on a time constraint: balancing their full-time jobs and their activism work.
National-Level Communication
Client
Mary Gould
Company
Alliance for Higher Education in Prison
Year
2021
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Project
Mary Gould is the Director of the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison. I first emailed Mary regarding a copy request for Volume 1 of the JHEP. Inspired by some elective reading, I wanted to get copies of the journal into the hands of incarcerated scholars.
From there, Mary became a lifeline in my Accommodations research project. Dr. Ryan and I struggled to find literature that pertains specifically to prison settings. So, I reached out to Mary to see if the AHEP had any usable resources on hand. Sure enough, Mary responded with an entire bibliography of helpful reading on pedagogy and prison education.



University-Level Communication
Client
Beth Staley
Company
Sounder.fm,
West Virginia University
Year
2021
Location
Morgantown, WV, USA
Project
I am actively collaborating with Beth Staley, adjunct English Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Writing at WVU. She has a diverse background in the editing and publishing field, currently freelancing for a podcast platform. So, she will advise the audio hosting and editing portions of the upcoming APBP podcast interview of a formerly incarcerated scholar I am moderating.

