Karin Gwinn Wilkins has a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and is John P. McGovern Regents Professor in Health and Medical Science Communication and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her work addresses scholarship in the fields of development and social change, health communication, and global communication.

1. Communication, Gender, Development
2. Communicating Gender in Micro-enterprise Development
3. Communicating Gender in Population Development
4. Communicating Gender in Education Development
5. Advocacy & Accountability for Gender Justice

Case studies of micro-enterprise, girls' education, and population programs suggest that our discourse limits our potential to conceive of development, communication, and gender outside of neoliberal ideologies. Advocacy for global social justice demands a different accountability through critical research.