Dominique is the Journal Director of CIRIS, serving as the editor and point of contact for scholars and students who desire peer review and publication of their original academic work. Her academic specialization includes the economy, security matters, and multilateral relations of member states within the European Union and the United Nations. Dominique is a 12-year veteran of the United States Army Military Police Corps, as well as a law enforcement veteran of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety - State Police. Dominique is a doctoral student with a concentration in International Education. She earned her Masters at the University of San Diego in International Relations at the Joan B. Kroc School for Peace and Justice. She also obtained her Bachelor's degree in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations from American Military University.
As technology advances, providing more complex and creative opportunities for alternative media, accurate reporting has become synonymous with exercising information literacy on not only the information provided, but also the source itself. While many rely on online news feeds and alternative media outlets, when strategically placed, these platforms have been used to effectively push ideologies and agendas that are not aligned with fact-based information. Some media outlets, such as RT, provide English-language news directed to audiences in the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as RT France, RT en Español, and RT Arabic. RT has also embedded itself on most Roku tv and other smart-tv devices bought at most local electronic stores globally. What is likely not known by RT’s 4 million YouTube subscribers and the RT America’s 375,000 Twitter followers is that RT (aka “Russia Today”) is one of Russia’s state-owned social media networks based in Moscow.
