Doris Wesley grew up in Southwest, Nigeria, where she graduated with her first degree in Mass Communication. She then moved to Illinois and received a B.A. degree in Speech Communication from Southern Illinois University with a concentration in Organizational and Persuasive Communication. She earned her M.A. degree in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a focus in Political Communication, Counterterrorism, and Communication Pedagogy, and transitioned to complete her doctoral degree in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) at North Carolina State University.
Her research interests are Digital Archive and Storytelling, Terrorist and Trauma Survivors Testimonies, Counterterrorism, Violent Extremism Prevention, Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Communication Pedagogy. She is currently using multimodal techniques to explore the narratives, discourse, and visual representation of Boko Haram terrorist survivors and Internally Displaced Persons. She is extremely passionate about sharing ideas to equip individuals, governments, and institutions. She loves solving pressing problems and thinking of new pragmatic ways of making our world habitable.