AUTHOR BIO:
Meriwether Ball is a communication doctoral candidate at Regent University, VA. She holds a master of science from London School of Economics and Political Science in England, a master of arts from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and a bachelor of arts from Regent University. She has authored two books about U.S. Marines: Puller Chronicles: Secrets and Mysteries about the Greatest Marines’ Heroic Ancestral Faith (2014), and Great Marines of Virginia (2016). She is the head and founder of Corps Stories Inc., a U.S. Marine feature news site and nonprofit organization. Ball served in the U.S. Navy Reserves, rate of journalist, and was honorably discharged as a petty officer third class. She was also a correspondent for several Associated Press newspapers. Dr. William J. Brown is a professor and research fellow in the Department of English and Communication Studies in the School of Communication and the Arts at Regent University. Brown also served as the dean of the School of Communication and the Arts from 1992 to 2002; and as chair of the Department of Strategic Communication and Journalism and director of the PhD program from 2003 to 2016. Brown also completed a five-year appointment as a Fulbright senior specialist with the Fulbright Scholar Program in Washington, DC.