Pamela “P.S.” Perkins

Professor Pamela “P.S.” Perkins teaches Public Speaking at the University of the District of Columbia Community College where she has become an integral member of the Firebird family. She brings twenty-five years of extensive education, training and curriculum development in human communication practices into every course she teaches. Professor Perkins has also given back to the UDC community having served as a Faculty Advisor of the Artist Collective, a UDC-CC based student organization dedicated to helping students find their voice through live performance and the arts.  She is the Producer and Host of Conversations About Communication a UDC-TV program which has aired for over two years. Currently her infomercial series, InWORD OutWORD is being widely distributed to support behavioral communication healing.

P.S. is an author and co-author of numerous books dedicated to communication and several professional and personal growth periodicals. Among others, her works include the highly acclaimed business self-help book, The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace, released in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., as well as a contributing author to the books Laws of Communication, Wiley Publishers, 2009, Wake Up Women, 2009 and the e-book 77 Best Ways to Communicate in 7 Steps. She has taught numerous classes as an in demand lecturer and adjunct professor at several area institutions.

P.S. founded the Human Communication Institute (HCI), LLC, which specializes in working with people whose success depends on communication clarity. The company develops clinics on personal and professional development and performs a host of other communication based services for its clients. P.S. has personally developed countless workshops and trainings and has spoken and presented at a wide assortment of institutions, corporations and other establishments. Professor Perkins holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in Speech Communications and a Master of Arts in Human Communication in Behavioral Communication/Cross-Cultural Studies from New York University.  She is the recipient of a 2017 John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Award, which she won in conjunction with being named one of three 2017 Faculty Members of the Year through the UDC-CC Employee Recognition Program. Professor Perkins holds the distinction of being the lone part-time faculty member earning such an award for 2017.