Faith Boninger

Faith Boninger is NEPC's Publications Manager and Co-Director of NEPC's Commercialism in Education Research Unit. She brings to her research a background in social psychology (Ph.D., Ohio State University), particularly an interest in persuasion, social influence, and communication processes. She co-authors CERU’s reports on school commercializing trends.  Additional publications include A National Survey of the Types and Extent of the Marketing of Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Schools, with Alex Molnar, David Garcia, and Bruce Merrill (2006) and Policy and Statutory Responses to Advertising and Marketing in Schools, with Alex Molnar and Bill Koski (2010).  Her book, Sold Out: How Marketing in School Threatens Children's Well-Being and Undermines their Education, with Alex Molnar, was released in 2015.  Her recent work focuses on  the ongoing digitalization of schooling: how it commercializes children, how schools might respond, and how policy can ensure transparency, oversight, and accountability of the digital platforms schools use.

Email Faith Boninger at: faith.boninger@colorado.edu