THE MAIL THEY SEND: AN EXPLORATION OF RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING STRATEGIES UTILIZED BY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

Keith V. Bletzer (keith.bletzer@asu.edu) is Adjunct Faculty in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) and Adjunct Faculty Instructor at Pima Community College (Tucson, AZ). Formally trained in medical-cultural-social anthropology and public health, he has a Ph.D. (Michigan State University), M.A. (New York University), and M.P.H. (University of Arizona). He has participated in university and community research projects as ethnographer and data analyst in four United States regions. His research has focused on prevention-education activities, community training, and social justice. Bridging academia and non-academia, his long-term work considers the impact of adversity on low-income peoples: farmworkers (Midwestern and Eastern United States), Indigenous health-seeking (Central America), and Latinx youth (Northeastern United States), among others. He has worked with team projects that utilized multi-sited methodologies and engaged in single-investigator studies. He has teaching experience part-time at two universities (anthropology) and two community colleges (anthropology and social science) in two regions of the United States and seven years of full-time teaching experience at three secondary schools (English; Biology; Earth Science; Health) in southern Arizona. He is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology and a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association.