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Kim Pearson has taught journalism, professional writing and humanities courses at The College of New Jersey since 1990. She is also a journalist, a former public relations manager, published poet and respected blogger.
In 2000, Pearson was named the New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. At TCNJ, Pearson advisesthe school newspaper The Signal, coordinates the professional writing minor and creates both real and virtual media enterprises with her students. This has included two magazines. College Money, a personal finance magazine for college students was in print from 1992 to 1995. In 1996, Pearson and her students created unbound, one of the first campus-based online newsmagazines. In addition, Pearson is one of the core faculty members behind TCNJ’s new Interactive Multimedia Major.
Pearson has more than 25 years' writing and editing experience for both consumer and controlled-circulation magazines, newsletters and other print and on-line publications. Her work has appeared in magazines ranging from Emerge to the Royal Canadian Journal of Radio astronomy and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. She is also a former contributing editor for The Quarterly Black Review of Books. Her most recent work has appeared in Africana.com, The Revealer The Princeton Independent. As a public relations writer and consultant, Pearson has written award-winning articles for AT&T and the Fox Chase Cancer Center of Philadelphia. Her consulting clients have included Bloomberg L.P. and Payne Theological Seminary.
Pearson has made presentations on teaching with technology for the American Social History Project’s New Media Classroom project, NJEdge.net, and others. Pearson has also been interviewed by several regional and national news organizations on media issues, including: the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press, and the New Orleans Times Picayune.
In 2003, Pearson contributed to The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections, the first interactive Black History Month kit published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). She contributed to the 2004 kit, Before Brown, Beyond Boundaries, and is co-editor for the 2005 kit, The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn. The Niagara Movement CD was produced in collaboaration with Prof. Daryl Michael Scott of Howard University, and Charlene Rivers of Makaeda Consulting.
Pearson holds an AB in Politics from Princeton University, and an MA in journalism from New York University, where she earned the Hillier Krieghbaum Science Writing Award. Her memberships include the Society of Professional Journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
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