Olga Lazitski Torres

Olga Lazitski Torres is a Ph.D. student in the Communication Department at UC San Diego.  She has at least 9 years of teaching experiences from courses in communication and media production to political science (both online format and in-person). She has also been working both as a journalist from 2001 until 2014 as well as a lecturer teaching high school students in Latvia during journalism summer camps. Olga believes she has experience to share with her students and teaching skills to apply in a classroom.

• Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego (USA)
• Master of Arts in Communication, University of California, San Diego (USA)
• Master of Arts in Journalism, Amur State University (Russia) 
• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Amur State University (Russia)

• Instructor, Propaganda and Persuasion, UC San Diego
• Instructor, Advanced Studies-Cultural Production, UC San Diego
• Instructor, Digital Media Literacy, UC San Diego
• Instructor, TV Industry, UC San Diego
• Instructor, Media Systems in the Post-truth Political Age, UC San Diego
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Communication, UC San Diego
• Teaching Assistant, Social Forces, UC San Diego
• Teaching Assistant, Interpretive Strategies, UC San Diego
• Teaching Assistant, Intro to Media Production, UC San Diego
• Teaching Assistant, 6^th College Writing Program, UC San Diego
• Lecturer, Young Media Sharks Camp, Latvia
• Field Screening Panelist/Essay Evaluator, American Councils for International Education, Russia

• 2021 UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship Award Recipients
• UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Scholar, San Diego, CA, awarded in 2017 and 2020
• Friends of the UCSD International Center Fellowship, San Diego, CA, awarded in 2016 and 2018
• Ruth Newmark Scholarship, San Diego, CA, 2016
• Fulbright Scholarship, Boston, MA, 2012 – 2013
• CNN Journalism Fellowship, Atlanta, GA, 2008  
• Internews Grant, Internews School of Journalism, Moscow, 2005
• Russian Journalists Union Award, Moscow, March 2006