Betsy Wackernagel Bach

Betsy Wackernagel Bach is a retired University of Montana faculty member where she taught courses in organizational communication for almost four decades. Her most recent passion was teaching a course on communication in nonprofit organizations. Her dedication to hospice and palliative care came while she was on the faculty at Missoula’s Chalice of Repose project, a music thanatology program that was housed at St Patrick Hospital. She has published over 40 books and articles about communication in organizations, served as president of the National Communication Association in 2009, and worked as assistant provost and dean of the Honors College at UM. She has volunteered her time on 11 nonprofit boards, including the Missoula Art Museum, the Jeannette Rankin Foundation and the YWCA.