Allison Copenbarger Vance is the Deputy Associate Chancellor for Strategic Communications and Marketing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this role, she leads messaging which includes crisis communications, issues management, executive communications, FOIA, institutional communications, news, media relations and an embedded team for the Office of the Provost. She also teaches one course each semester, Writing for Public Relations, in the department of advertising. Before joining the university, she was a magazine editor and freelance journalist. Allison is a two-time Illinois alumna, with a master’s degree in advertising and a bachelor’s degree in journalism.