Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor in American University’s School of Communication and the Division Director for the Public Communication. Ever since I graduated as an undergraduate from American University’s School of Communication, I wanted to teach in the program. I felt like AU helped me discover my true passion in public relations and strategic communication, and teaching was a way of giving back. Eight years after graduation, after working in New York and Philadelphia, I was headed back to DC, and my first goal was to fulfill a long-held dream of mine to teach in the Public Communication division.

Goals for Good will be an annual event held to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association right here in Washington, DC. Each year, the fight against Alzheimer’s disease becomes more critical. Every 70 seconds, a new individual is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s Association is committed to finding a cure …