Alyssa Coffey is a first-year doctoral student studying political communication. Her research interests include the effects of media and group identity and their relationships to partisanship and polarization. She received her Master’s in Communication from Saint Louis University where her thesis focused on Fox News consumption and its relationship to political tribalism including partisan identification, partisan affect, and perceptions of polarization. She currently serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication for Public Speaking (COMM 1200).