Brenda Scherbring Ahntholz

Educator/Teacher

Brenda Ahntholz is a Professor of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA where she created and developed several successful programs including the Communication Centers, the Communication Colloquium Speakers Series, and the Gender Sex Fair. She has served as Faculty Senate President, Director of the Communication Centers, and General Education Curriculum Chair at her college. In April 2018, she emceed the first TEDx event at Ohlone and in September 2018 she coached speakers for TEDx Los Gatos at Netflix. Her areas of academic interests are in critical cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical communication pedagogy. Prior to academia, she worked in marketing and market research as a qualitative research analyst and focus group moderator. Her bachelor’s degree is in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Nebraska and her master’s degree is in Communication Studies with a focus on gender & women’s studies, LGBTQ studies, and communication education from the University of Northern Iowa. She also pursued her doctorate in Leadership and Multicultural Education at Alliant International University in San Francisco.

Communication and Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Culture