
Sparks serves her community as President and Trustee of the Orange County Board of Education, elected in 2018 (56.8% of the vote with more than 80,000 votes) and re-elected in 2022 (65% of the vote with more than 100,000 votes) in South County Area 5 to promote and advocate for quality public school choice options in K12 Orange County school districts. Sparks has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, ABC 7 News, KCAL 9 News, National Public Radio, Your World with Neil Cavuto-Fox News, Epoch Times-California Insider Show, KABC Talk Radio, and TED.ĭr. House of Representatives Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI, and Consultant on various research grants Editor, Guest Editor, and Reviewer of numerous academic journals and editorial boards.

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Sparks has served in the following roles: International Research Fellow at Vriet Universitiet Amsterdam Full Member of the Chao Family/NCI Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Irvine Cancer Communication Research Fellow for the National Cancer Institute and External Scientific Reviewer for NIH Consultant for U. Sparks occupied faculty positions at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and the University of Texas at San Antonio. In addition, she holds post graduate certifications from Harvard University’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE) program in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Sparks is an internationally renowned teacher-scholar whose published work spans more than 150 research articles and book chapters and 13 books in the areas of health risk communication and aging and is cited as top ten most prolific authors in Health Communication. She previously served as Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. Sparks serves as Endowed Professor in Behavioral Sciences in the School of Communication, of which she was the Founding Dean, with joint appointments in the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences and School of

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