Sunny Lie Owens is an associate professor of communication at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research interests include culture and communication, the relationship between religious communication and ethnic identity, and cross-cultural perceptions of love and dating. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, the Journal of Religious Communication, and the Journal of Applied Communication Research.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in communication and East Asian languages and cultures from the University of Southern California (USC) and a master’s degree in global communications from both USC and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dr. Lie Owens, a Fulbright US Scholar Teaching grant awardee, teaches intercultural communication and critical theory at Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ). In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she conducts workshops on research writing and publishing in U.S. academic journals for UNJ social science faculty. Dr. Owens is the first scholar of culture and communication to offer expertise in intercultural communication in Indonesia.