Emily Pollard (MA, Texas State University) is doctoral student who studies whiteness and white femininity through a critical/cultural lens. She is also interested in topics related to intercultural communication, intersectionality, queerness, power, work, media and labor. Pollard primarily utilizes qualitative research methods (i.e., rhetorical methods, interviewing).

Pollard is a recipient of the 2023-2024 Glenda Lewis Critical Race Scholar Award and the 2023 Top Master's Thesis Award (Rhetorical/Critical Analysis) from the Master's Education Section of the National Communication Association.