Jone earned an MA and PhD from CU Boulder's Department of Communication in the area of Community and Social Interaction. She uses ethnography and discourse analysis to study the social construction of identities and communities. Her largest research projects to date have been about diasporic Basque identity and community in culture clubs in the U.S. and about hybrid and third space identities for first generation immigrants in adult ESL classes.
Jone is currently a lecturer for the department and through Continuing Education. She started teaching in 2012 and has taught Discourse, Culture, and Identities, Intercultural Communication, The Practice of Intercultural Communication, Business and Professional Communication, Communication and Gender, Perspectives on Human Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Public Speaking. She has also brought her expertise to industry roles, having worked most recently at the International Labour Organization and the University of Virginia.