On this site you’ll find my work as a university educator, college media leader, journalist and writer.
Since fall 2023, I’ve been serving as a tenure-track journalism professor at Howard University, the nation’s top HBCU, in Washington, D.C., and serving as the editorial director of Howard University News Service, which trains student journalists to provide hyperlocal and national reporting to serve media deserts among the Black press nationwide and address a severe lack of diverse news coverage.
Before coming to Howard, I created the Illinois Public Media student newsroom at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and pioneered the unified student media program at the University of Vermont, directing and advising student organizations in radio, newspaper and TV.
Read on to learn more about my student media advising, teaching, journalism and original fiction, as well as testimonials from my former students, colleagues and fellow First Amendment advocates.
Journalism majors Charrice Jones and Vivian La, above, were among my first batch of recruits to the Illinois Public Media Student Newsroom.
Chris Evans 