Mary Jo Stockton, Director of Web and Social Content, - Longwood University

Mary Jo Stockton is the Director of Web and Social Content for Longwood University. Her responsibilities include developing and managing the university’s social media accounts and web presence. Mary Jo has a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and a master’s in bioengineering from Strathclyde University in Scotland and a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. With the growing prominence of the internet and the WWW in the 90s, her career took a left turn into freelance web development. She ended up at Longwood in 2008 just as social media was becoming more relevant in digital marketing. She is also a 3-time graduate of Higher Ed Experts’ professional certificate program in Web Analytics for Higher Ed. In her spare time, Mary Jo is involved in community theatre and is the assistant director of the Virginia Children’s Book Festival. She is also mum to a 14-year-old boy, a cat lady, and a geek consuming all the usual fare of Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc.