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Dr. John James Nicoletti has a 30-plus-year background in communications, public affairs, and crisis management with experience in sports, entertainment, government, and brand marketing.

 Nicoletti leads ASU's Cronkite Agency as its Executive Director and professor of practice in strategic communications.

In his career, Nicoletti was SVP, Corporate Communications at InStride, a learning services enterprise. He was also an executive at The Walt Disney Company for over 11 years, working at Parks & Resorts and Walt Disney Studios. Nicoletti led global and local external, internal, and executive communications functions, including crisis, public affairs, and stakeholder engagement work.

Before Disney, Nicoletti was the external affairs manager and chief spokesperson for the City of Anaheim, California’s 10th largest city.

Nicoletti has been a faculty member at Pepperdine, Chapman, CSU-Fullerton, and the University of Southern California. A graduate of UCLA and Pepperdine University, Nicoletti completed his Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership, with a dissertation addressing the social media habits of Fortune 500 CEOs.

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