Christy Silverthorne

Christy Silverthorne serves as an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the School of Business, Leadership and Technology at Bushnell University. She transitioned from adjunct instructor (since 2017) to full-time faculty in 2022.

Her academic credentials include an M.A. in Communications from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Business Administration and Journalism from the University of Oregon, where she graduated from the Honors Program at the Lundquist College of Business.

Professor Silverthorne specializes in marketing with a focus on nonprofit communications, digital storytelling, and marketing strategy. Her professional experience includes media planning, public relations, and digital marketing for nonprofits such as Safe Families for Children, for which she produced the first national commercial and Oregon's digital volunteer recruitment campaign. She also contributed to a celebrity chef's book launch that garnered BBC coverage.