Dr. Annette D. Madlock (Ph.D., Howard University) is an independent scholar and entrepreneur. She currently serves on the board of the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender and is the President of the Religious Communication Association. Madlock is an experienced speaker who has given many national and international presentations and workshops.

As an award-winning author, speaker, and educator, Dr. Madlock's work has appeared in the American Medical Association's Journal of Ethics, the Journal of Women and Language, Women's Studies in Communication, FIRE, the Multimedia Journal for Black Studies, various Sage Encyclopedias, and other peer-reviewed works. Her notable publications include Health Communication and Breast Cancer Among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength (Lexington); Communicating Women's Health: Social and Cultural Norms that Influence Health Decisions (editor, Routledge); and Womanist Ethical Rhetoric: A Call for Liberation and Social Justice in Turbulent Times (co-editor). Dr. Madlock also served as the Journal of Communication and Religion guest editor.

Recent work includes book chapters "Womanism and Phenomenology as Dialogic Lens." In I. Sayrak, J. Harden Fritz, and K. L. Majocha (Eds), Dialogic Editing in Academic and Professional Writing: Engaging the Trace of the Other (Routledge) and "A Womanist Ethic of Care and Semioethics: Shared Ethical and Moral Expression." In S. Petrilli & S. Mancino (Eds), Communication, Dialogue, and Responsibility: Semioethic Approaches (Taylor & Francis).