Professional Development Activities

Professional Development

• Howard University Chair Leadership Academy, 2017-18
• National Association of Black Journalists conference in New Orleans, 2017
• Academic fellowship for Association of Health Care Journalists in Orlando, Fla., 2017
• Selected as a returning John A. Hartford/Commonwealth Foundation Journalism in Aging & Health Fellow to attend and cover the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, 2016
• Age Boom Academy: The Future of Work and Retirement at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2016
• Cancer Reporting Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, 2016
• NABJ regional conference, Morgan State University, Baltimore, 2016
• Association of Health Care Journalists, Cleveland, 2016
• Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Media, Phoenix, January 2016
• American Council on Education (ACE), Leadership Academy for Department Chairs, 2015
• Provost’s Office monthly workshops and meetings for department chairs, 2015-present
• “The Role of Nonprofit Media in a Vibrant Civil Society,”co-sponsored by the Council on Foundations at the Newseum, 2015
• “Designing Ethics in the Digital Age,” Newseum, 2015
• NABJ, Minneapolis, 2015
• Cracking the Code, International Women’s Media Foundation Digital News Entrepreneurs Summit, New York, 2015
• New U News Entrepreneurs Working Through Unity Boot Camp, AAJA, 2014
• TIE X Boot Camp and Accelerator, Opportunity Hub, Atlanta, 2014
• Rainbow PUSH Media Telecommunications Symposium, Washington, 2014
• Hack the Gender Gap, PBS MediaShift/Google, West Virginia University, 2014
• CollabSpace D.C., PBS MediaShift/Reynolds Journalism Institute, Washington Post, 2014
• “Introduction to Mobile Journalism,” five-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Knight Center for Journalism, July to August 2014

• National Association of Black Journalists conference, including half-day boot camp on Google tools, Boston, August 2014
• Refresher on Final Cut Pro, two sessions, Department of Media Journalism and Film Tech Center, June 2014
• Selected as the John A. Hartford/MetLife Foundation Journalism in Aging & Health Fellow to attend and cover the Gerontological Society of America’s 66th Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 20-24, 2013
• John Jay College Center on Media, Crime and Justice Fellowship on “Health Behind Bars: What Obamacare Means for Courts, Prisons, Jails and the Justice-Involved (and How to Report It),” New York, Oct. 21 & 22, 2013
• Online News Association national conference, Atlanta, October 2013

Howard University Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment (CETLA):

• ID01 Designing Syllabi
• GG01 Integrating Google Applications
• Advanced Blackboard techniques for online grade books
• Engaging students
• Teaching millennials
• Assessments
• Plagiarism
• Equipment and white-board demonstrations

Participants in the Cancer Reporting Fellowship co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Association of Health Care Journalists in 2016.