Jessie Cretser-Hartenstein

Jessie Cretser-Hartenstein is our faculty member specializing in public relations. She teaches a wide range of courses within the department, including Public Relations, Media Advertising, Media Research,  Global Media and Society, and Intro to Mass Communication. She is also the adviser for Osprey, the award-winning, student-run magazine of Cal Poly Humboldt.

Outside of the classroom, Cretser-Hartenstein combines her study of media with her passion for the environment. She has experience working on communication and outreach with nonprofit organizations, promoting coastal resilience projects with Surfrider Foundation, food security projects with Locally Delicious, statewide environmental health projects with Californians for Alternatives to Toxics, and international sustainability projects with The Appropedia Foundation and Practivistas Dominicana. Once upon a time, her talents were also put to good use in the corporate world, working as the International Communications Director at a digital media company in Sydney, Australia.

When it's time to take a break from work, she can usually be found digging in the dirt in her organic veggie garden, catching waves in Humboldt and Del Norte, or globetrotting in Oceania, Asia, Central America, or the Middle East, making humble attempts to tread lightly and live a sustainable lifestyle.

Cretser-Hartenstein is a proud, first-generation, Humboldt alumna. After graduating with a BA in English and Environmental Ethics in 2005, she went on to earn a postgraduate degree through the Master of Media Practice program at the University of Sydney in the land down under.