Jamie Votraw is the Media Intern for the Open SUNY Online Teaching/Communications team. Jamie has a B.A. in Political Science, a B.S. in Communication from SUNY Oneonta, and an M.A. in Communication from the University at Albany. She is currently a lecturer at the University at Albany and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication. She teaches undergraduate courses in public speaking, political communication, and mass communication, and her doctoral studies are in the area of political communication, largely focused on relationship between politics, media and society.