Tiffany Petricini

Tiffany Petricini is an associate teaching professor in Communication. She is co-chair of Penn State’s Joint Standing Committee on Responsible and Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and leads the Behrend Ad Hoc AI Taskforce. She also leads the Penn State Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice (AICoP) and the Humanities Institute’s Phenomenology Collaborative Colloquia. Her Teaching with Technology Fellowship for 2024–2026 has focused on Penn State's new Beyond the Podium open education resource (OER) that embeds AI literacy within the communication basic course. Her publications have reflected interests in phenomenology, interpersonal communication, technology, philosophy, ethics, and media ecology, including her work Friendship and Technology, available through Routledge. She also serves as the social media expert for NBC affiliate WFMJ 21 News.