Abbe Depretis is anAssistant Teaching Professor of Business Communication at the Tepper School of Businessat Carnegie Mellon University and was formerly an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Communication and Social Influence at Temple University. Her area of study is rhetoric and social change, business communication, and DEI in the workplace. Depretis has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Social Change from the University of Maryland and an MBA fromTemple University.