She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from Arizona State University in 2005 and joined UCSB’s Communication Department in 2007. She was awarded the 2010­-2011 Harold J. Plous Award, one of UCSB’s most prestigious faculty honors given to an Assistant Professor who has shown exceptional achievement in research, teaching, and service to the university. Her primary areas of research involve organizational communication with a focus on organizational socialization and assimilation, organizational knowledge, identity, emotion management, conflict, and leadership. Myers also investigates other workplace communication issues such as workplace flexibility and work­life balance issues; organizational identification; and interaction between generational cohorts in the workplace.