Jyotika Ramaprasad is Professor in the School of Communication, University of Miami, Florida. Her career is largely defined by global work and indigenous understandings. Currently, her work is focused on the use of communication for global social change, largely in the Majority World, that includes both research and creative production in partnership with team members. Examples of this work include projects on couple testing for discordant HIV/AIDS status in Uganda, flood preparedness in lagoons of Vietnam, and improving interactions between health care personnel and Roma patients in Macedonia. In Miami, she has worked with marine sciences faculty on the benefits of an artificial coral reef for stemming storm damage and recovering ocean life.

Ramaprasad has taught a wide span of courses from communication (including social change) theory and research methods to intercultural communication, international communication/media systems, media literacy, graphics, advertising and magazine design, and more. She has run workshops, given talks, and taught as well as provided curricular advice to several institutions in different parts of the world including a journalism/communication education consulting assignment for five countries in East Africa, where as early as 2008 she focused on “earth communications,” i.e., environmental education and vernacular knowledge. In 2021, on the founding of the Native American and Global Indigenous Studies program at UM, Ramaprasad developed an Indigenous Peoples’ Communication course, focused on self-writing indigenous narratives.

Ramaprasad has presented her research at national conferences of journalism and advertising educator associations and published in the Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising, Social Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Interactive Advertising, Journal of Communication Management, Journalism Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Asian Journal of Communication, Gazette, Mass Communication & Society, The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Digital Journalism, and other journals. She has edited two books and is currently editing a book on cross border journalism that is focused on representing decolonized and indigenous perspectives and inclusion of Majority World authors as much as possible. Ramaprasad has also produced a few videos for social change (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=300T4m-N4s).