- Faculty
Barbara E. Mink
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Deputy Area Chair of the Marketing and Management Communication Area
Biography
Barbara Mink is a management communication professional with a focus on intercultural communication, leadership, and persuasion. As a senior lecturer of management communication at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, she teaches how to craft persuasive and informational presentations that are clear, concise, and compelling.
Mink was news director of WHCU radio from 1978 to 1986 and taught radio journalism at Ithaca College and Cornell. She served on the Tompkins County Legislature for 12 years, and served as chair for five. She was also founder and director of the Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts from 1999-2011. Mink was a visiting lecturer in communication and leadership at ESCP Europe in Paris and AVT Business School in Copenhagen. She is also an active painter with an international presence.
Education
MA Cornell University, 1985 BA SUNY University at Buffalo, 1975