Kim Pearson Resumé Kim Pearson OFFICE: (609) 771-2692 FAX: (609) 637-5112 English Department The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Road Ewing, New Jersey08628-0718 Email: professorkim2003@yahoo.com URL: http://www.kimpearson.net Summary of Qualifications An award-winning teacher, magazine writer and public relations project manager with more than 20 years of experience in private and public sector organizations
yes Education 1992 New York University New York, New York MA, Journalism
yes 1978 Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey AB, Politics
yes Professional Experience 1990 - Present The College of New Jersey Ewing, New Jersey • Associate Professor (2005-present )
yes • Assistant Professor (1990-2005) Develop and teach courses in feature writing, magazine writing, and professional writing both at the introductory and advanced levels. Also teach interdisciplinary courses in the humanities. Tenured in 1994. Coordinator and advisor for the college's professional writing minor. Under my direction, my journalism students and others created and maintain unbound (http://www.tcnj.edu/~unbound), an online magazine designed to enhance readers' ability to control their own destinies. Finally, I served as advisor to The Signal, the college's award-winning newspaper, from 1993-2005. My professional writing students function as part of a virtual management services consulting firm, which provides both creative and account management services to real clients.
yes 2006- BlogHer San Jose, California • Contributing Editor BlogHer is a web portal founded to enhance the visibility of women bloggers. As contributing editor for the Law and Journalism sections of the site, my primary responsibility is to maintain a personal (BlogHer weblog), featuring original posts and round-ups of notable blog posts in the Law and Media/Journalism sections of BlogHer's sizeable Blogroll. In addition, BlogHer sponsors an annual conference intended to help bloggers master new skills and technologies, as well as to promote critical reflection on the practice of blogging. 1996 - 2002 The College of New Jersey Ewing, New Jersey • Founder, unbound Institute The unbound Institute applied the insights of learning theory and constructivist pedagogy to the task strengthening and diversifying the pool of future media professionals. Its principle activities included publication of on online newsmagazine, unbound (http://www.tcnj.edu/~unbound), journalism workshops and internships for high-school students and public programs about journalism and the media. 1996 – 2002 • Public relations consultant Provided consulting and creative services to a select number of clients in the financial, high-technology and non-profit sectors. Client roster has included the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Silver Springs, Maryland; Black Fashion Museum, Washington, D.C.; Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio; and Bloomberg, L.P., Princeton, New Jersey. Specializations include: competitive analysis, strategy, messaging, editing, writing, coaching writers, media training, and media relations.
yes Summer 1995, 1996 Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey • Writing Tutor, PPIA Fellows Program Writing coach in program designed to prepare selected students for graduate education in the fields of public policy and international affairs. 1994-95 Quarterly Black Review of Books New York, New York • Contributing Editor Wrote reviews, articles and essays. Recruited writers, advised editor and publisher on editorial planning and marketing.
1982-90 AT&T Basking Ridge, New Jersey • Public Relations Writer Created, managed and implemented communications plans in the areas of media relations, employee communications, marketing support and community relation. Worked as a staff reporter for AT&T Bell Laboratories' (Now Lucent Technologies) newspaper, the Bell Labs News, as well as its marketing support magazine, proto. Wrote and edited management newsletter, Perspective. Also wrote for Bell Labs' technical magazine, The Bell Labs Record. Also served as staff writer for AT&T's employee magazine, Focus. In 1985, served as loaned executive to the New Jersey office of the United Negro College Fund. Developed and implemented public relations programs, assisted with the coordination of volunteers, and appeared on the New York-area broadcast of the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon.
yes 1978-80 Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania • Information Specialist Lay counselor for the Cancer Information Service, a telephone hotline for patients, families and other interested parties. Edited and wrote newsletter for allied health professionals. Assisted in planning and implementation of cancer information programs.
yes Publications Current projects in progress • Fashioned by Love: The Life of Nancybelle Valentine: a web-based multimedia documentary about the African American woman who helped create the Liz Claiborne fashion empire. • Publisher, Professor Kim’s News Notes. (http://professorkim.blogspot.com) July 2003-present. Analysis and commentary on race, class, gender, sexuality and religion in the news.
Books, CDs, DVDs • Editor and co-producer, The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn Multimedia CD-ROM. Publisher: Association for the Study of African American Life and History. 2005. • Contributing editor and writer, Before Brown, Beyond Boundaries: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. BOE of Topeka Kansas. CD-ROM commissioned by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, published by Africa World Press, 2004. • Co-producer and contributor, The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections. Multimedia CD-ROM published and distributed by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2003
Book Chapters "Small Murders: Rethinking the Coverage of Hate Crimes Against GLBT People," News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity. Editors: Laura Casteňada and Shannon Campbell. NY: Sage Publishers, 2005. pp. 159-88
Magazine, Web site, and Newspaper Articles •"Around the BlogHer Law Blogs,"BlogHer, March 4, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/3124> •"Founders of Black History Month Honor Civil Rights Icon Dorothy Height," BlogHer, February 28, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/2949 •"BlogHers Blogging the Writing Life," February 17, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/2525 •"About those cartoons" BlogHer, February 10,2006 http://blogher.org/node/2162 •"Live Blogging Mrs. King's Funeral: I Couldn't Help Myself" BlogHer, February 7, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/1951 •"Reflecting on the life of Coretta Scott King" BlogHer, January 31, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/1378 •"Around the BlogHer Law Blogs," BlogHer, January 25, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/738 •"Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington Can Take Care of Themselves. How About Some Media Activism About Some Real Issues?" Blog Her, January 25, 2006 http://blogher.org/node/721 • “When Even Having a Father is Not Enough.” SeeingBlack.com: Oh Brother Issue, 2005. Selected by guest editor Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University as part of a special article collection. Nov. 4, 2005 http://www.seeingblack.com/2005/x110405/father.shtml • “GOP pushing morals to win over black Christians," The Courier-Post. Feb. 20, 2005 • “Black Christians, Homosexuality and the American Creed,” The Revealer. http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main_story_000632.php • “A Poem Against the End of June (Jordan)” TCNJ Review Spring, 2004, p. 16 • “The Africana QA: Gay Activist Keith Boykin,” (interview) Africana.com April 5, 2004. http://www.africana.com/articles/qa/bw20040405boykin.asp (Reprinted as a “Top Story” on Alternet.org, April 12, 2004. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18354 • “Self-determining Haiti” (introduction) Africana.com March 22, 2004. http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/bw20040322haiti.asp • “The South Carolina Miracle: Politicians Courting Black Voters,” Open Source Politics. February 26, 2004. http://www.ospolitics.org/legalwrites/archives/2004/02/26/the_south_.php • “Miche Braden, From the Heart.” US 1 newspaper, Feb. 25, 2004, pgs. 38-9. (text available online at: http://www.princetoninfo.com/200402/40225p04.html.) • “A Libation for Sakia.” (poem) African Feminisms III No. 58, November 2003 • “Amiri Baraka Joins the Gay Rights/Anti-Violence Movement.” Open Source Politics. http://www.ospolitics.org/legalwrites/archives/2003/09/19/amiri_bara.php#more. September 19, 2003 • “The Curious Logic of the Rigid Right.” Open Source Politics. September 12, 2003 http://www.ospolitics.org/legalwrites/archives/2003/09/12/the_curiou.php#more • “Commission Faults Government on Environmental Justice. Open Source Politics. September 12, 2003. http://www.ospolitics.org/healthenv/archives/2003/09/12/commision_.php#more • Media Definition of Cold War Reality (Review) Jhistory HNet Discussion Groups. November, 2002. • Alums Cover the Terrorist Attacks (contributor) News at 10: NYU Journalism's Alumni Newsletter. Winter, 2001. http://www.tcnj.edu/~unbound/publisher/2001/pub2-9.html • “Does the ‘Talented Tenth Have Amnesia?” PenWheels. TonyaBolden.Com February, 2001. http://www.tonyabolden.com/pw0201b.html#kim • "Improve Teaching and Forgo Stereotyping: Creating an Educational Environment where every student can learn," Princeton Alumni Weekly February 9, 2000. • "Becoming unbound". Publisher's note, February 9, 2001 • “A Poem for GB.” Spirit in the Words National Association of Black Journalists’ Anthology, 2000 • "Three Songs," The TCNJ Review, Spring 1998 (poetry) • "Magic in Neverland: Life in a Utopian Collegiate Society." College Money magazine, Spring, 1995. • "Sound and Fury, Signifying Confusion." (Review of Thomas Sowell's Race and Culture: A World View). Quarterly Black Review of Books, February, 1995 • "Carol Swain's Contrarian View of Black Electoral Power," Quarterly Black Review of Books, Winter, 1994. • "African as Agent: Molefi Asante on Afrocentricity." Quarterly Black Review of Books, Fall, 1994. • "North Philly: Books as Trail Markers." (With Charlene B. Rivers) Quarterly Black Review of Books, Summer, 1994 • "The Power of Vision: A Portrait of Kassahun Checole." Quarterly Black Review of Books, Spring, 1994. • "The Power, Pain and Passion of Black Love," (review of Juwanzaa Kunjufu's book of the same title) Quarterly Black Review of Books, Spring, 1994. • "Banking on Black Deposit Power." Emerge, March, 1992 • "The big comeback." With Dawn M. Baskerville, Black Enterprise, 22(6): 61-66, Jan. 1992. • "Dialogue with...Ed Towns." Emerge Magazine, October, 1991. • "Dialogue With... Diane Abott." Emerge Magazine, June 1991. • "What You Should Know About 401(k) Plans," Black Enterprise, June 1991. • "Diversifying Your Risk With Mutual Funds," Black Enterprise, April, 1991. • "College Financing Primer." Black Enterprise, March, 1991. • "Civil Rights: Time to Reinvigorate the Cause." Newsday, September 24, 1989 (Long Island edition); September 26, 1989 (New York edition) • "In Search of Greater Princeton." Princeton Packet. May 29, 1989 • "Linc Hawkins: A Black Engineering Pioneer." Black Collegian, December 1982. (Reprinted in Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in 1983.) • "Collecting the Calls of the Cosmos," Royal Journal of Radioastronomy (Canada), 1983 (Reprint of article for the AT&T Bell Laboratories Record • "Bonner Studies Origin, Meaning of Human Values," Princeton Weekly Bulletin, June 14, 1982 Also: Between 1978 and 1990, wrote more than 100 articles for newsletters and magazines published by either AT&T or the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Articles covered a variety of scientific, medical or business topics.
Workshops, Papers and Presentations •"Injustice, Intolerance and Intersectional Identity" (panelist) February 22, 2006. Princeton University. Sponsored by the Princeton University Black Graduate Student Caucus and the Rashawn Brazell Memorial Foundation •"Fear of a Black World" December 8, 2005 The College of New Jersey. Sponsored by Chi Upsilon Sigma, National Latin Sorority Inc. co-sponsored by Lambda Theta Phi, Latin Faternity, Inc., Sankofa, and FlOW Hip Hop Dance Team •"Blogging Katrina: Some Quick Impressions." Remarks for Community Learning Day Panel. The College of New Jersey. October 12, 2005 •"Blogging While Black In Africana Studies." Best Practices in Digital Pedagogy Panel. Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual convention. October 7, 2005 •"Constructing a Usable African-American Past: The Power of Multimedia," (Panel Respondent) Niagara Movement Centennial Distinguished Lecture Series, Buffalo State College. September 15, 2005 • "Spies, Scandal and Sensational Press" Journalism and Popular Culture During the Niagara Movement Years." US Department of Labor Black History Month Program, New York City, Feb. 17, 2005. • "Weblogs and Wikis: Hot Licks for Teaching" Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the US Past in the New Media Classroom. Dillard University/Spelman College Summer Institute June 19-25, 2004. • "The Prodigal Son, A Womanist Perspective." St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. March 21, 2004. • "On Being A Drum Major." Keynote address, Martin Luther King Day Commemoration. Lawrence High School. January 19, 2004. • "Small Murders: Race, Class, Sex and News Coverage," The College of New Jersey Women’s Center, November 20, 2003. • "When and Where I Enter: Toward a Black Feminist Epistemology of Journalism," Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. October 25, 2003. • "The Making of the ‘Souls of Black Folk CD" Technology Plenary, 88th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 27, 2003. • "Race, Homophobia and the Murder of Sakia Gunn," Princeton University Women’s Center. September 7, 2003. • "Teaching Rigoberta Menchu" Afican Diaspora and the World Faculty Development Workshop. Spelman College, June 2003. • "Making a Difference." Minority Scholars Lecture. The College of New Jersey. October 14, 2001. • "What Does a Professor Do?" presentation for Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University. October 6, 2001 The College of New Jersey. • Panel chair and commentator, "W.E.B. Du Bois". 86th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Washington D.C. September 29, 2001. • "Welcome. And Bon Voyage." Remarks for TCNJ Convocation, August 28, 2001. • "Bridging the Divided Digital Consciousness: The Challenge for Africana Women’s Studies" (invited talk) Digitizing Divas: Africana Women's Studies Crossing the Digital Divide, Faculty Development Institute, Co-sponsored The College of New Jersey’s Department of African American Studies and Florida International University’s African-New World Studies Program. June 23, 2001. • Moderator, Distance Learning Panel, Digitizing Divas Conference, The College of New Jersey, June 20, 2001. • "Faculty of the Future" (invited talk) NJEdge.Net Distance Learning Advisory Board Colloquium, March 9, 2001 • "Becoming unbound," Ethnography in Education Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 3, 2001. • "Becoming unbound" New Jersey InterCampus Network Best Practices Faculty Showcase, Seton Hall University, November 17, 2000. • "Selected Poems from 'Sanity is a GOOD Thing!'" TCNJ Women’s History Month Poetry Reading, March 15, 2000. • "Selected Poems from 'Sanity is a GOOD Thing!'" TCNJ Womens History Month Poetry Reading, March 4, 1999. • "Ida and Her Sisters: Black Women in the Media, 1880-1920," Princeton Chapter of the American Association of University Women, November 10, 1998. • "Race and the Media," Presentation for the New Jersey Department of Education Global Education Workshop, September 17, 1998. • "The UNBOUND Teacher: Teaching Magazine Writing and Editing in the Era of New Media" 1997. • "The Rhetoric of Race." Spring Fling, The College of New Jersey. April 13, 1997. • "Blacks in Journalism." (invited talk) Central Jersey Network of Black Women. March 13, 1994. Part of a lecture series sponsored by the New Jersey Council on the Humanities.
Media Projects • Co-Editor and producer, The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn Multimedia CD-ROM for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Publisher: ASALH. 2005. • Publisher, Professor Kim’s News Notes. (http://professorkim.blogspot.com) July 2003-present. Analysis and commentary on race, class, gender, sexuality and religion in the news. • Contributing editor and writer,, Before Brown, Beyond Boundaries: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. BOE of Topeka Kansas.. CD-ROM commissioned by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, published by Africa World Press, 2004. • Co-producer and contributor, The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections. Multimedia CD-ROM published and distributed by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2003. • Producer and Moderator, "Gender Race and the Law: The Case For Critical Race Feminism." Video teleconference -- January 28, 1998. The College of New Jersey and the University of Iowa College of Law. • "Interview with Ed Bullins" (playwright).The College of New Jersey television services, February 17,1997. Transcript at:: http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Articles/kp%20interview_with_ed_bullins.htm
Artistic Projects • Writer-director, "The Ethiopian Eunuch" (play) for Unity Fellowship Church-New Brunswick, April 17, 2004 • Writer-director, performer, "It’s About to Go Down!" (A Little Biblical Drama). Premiered at Unity Fellowship Church - New Brunswick, Nov. 30, 2003 • "Sanity is a GOOD Thing!" Songwriting project. Wrote lyrics for and am participating in the production of a series of gospel, rap, reggae, jazz blues and folk songs. Some songs set to music and arrranged by composers Brandon Franks, Charlene Rivers, and Ja-Tun Thomas. (1999) • "We've Come This Far By Faith: Family Remembrances of the Civil Rights Era." Photo essay exhibit produced with Karen Delgado Jarvis, photographer. Exhibit toured corporate, college and private galleries in New Jersey and Illinois.There have also been showings and workshops in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, New Jersey; and the National Council of Negro Women's Black Family Reunion Festival in Washington, D.C. 1988-91.
yes Teaching Note: course syllabi from 1997 to 2002 can be viewed online at: http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Syllabi/syllabus_pages_for_Kim_Pearson.htm •Interactive Storytelling (Spring 2005 -- wrote course proposal) •Design Perspectives in Interactive Multimedia,(part of three-person faculty team. (Fall 2003, 2005 -- co-authored course proposal) • Introduction to Professional Writing (Every fall semester from 1990 - present, 1991,1993, 1994, 2006 spring semesters) designed class. • Topics in Professional Writing (Every Fall semester from 1990 – 1998) designed class. • Magazine Writing (Fall and Spring, 1990 – Every Spring semester from 1993 – present) designed class • Feature Writing (Every fall semester since 1994, excludin fall, 2004 -- wrote course proposal) • Humanity: Ideas and Ideals (Section leader – Fall 1993, 1994) • Short Story (Summer, 1993) • Rhetoric 1 (Summer, 1994) • Athens to New York (Fall, 1995, Spring, 1997,1998,1999,2000, Summer, 1998), designed class • The Writings of WEB Du Bois (Spring, 1994, Fall, 1999, 2000, 2001 -- wrote course proposal) • Race, Class and Gender (Summer 1997,1998, 1999,2000,2001 -- wrote course proposal) • Race, Gender and The News (Spring, 2000, Spring 2001, Summer 2005, Spring 2006) • Reporting Education (Fall, 2000) • The Future of the News (Spring, 2001) • The Rhetoric of Race (Summer, 2001) • Computer Assisted Reporting (Fall, 2001,2002 every fall since 2004 -- wrote course proposal ) TCNJ Service • Adviser, Ed@TCNJ. This is a student organization for aspiring magazine editors affiliated with the national professional organization, Ed2010 • Adviser, unbound (The online magazine became a student organization in 2002. 2002-present) • Core Faculty, Interactive Multimedia Major (2002-present) • Dean Search Committee, TCNJ School of Arts Music and Media (2003) • Ad Hoc Committee to design media major (2001-3) • Adviser, Professional Writing Minor (1990-present) • English Department Personnel Committee (2000-3) • Fostering a Community Ethic Against Racism: The Color of Fear at TCNJ http://www.tcnj.edu/~kpearson/color/color.html • TCNJ Faculty Senate, 1999 – 2001 • TCNJ Faculty Fellow, 2000-2001 • President’s Diversity Council, 2000- 3 • TCNJ Planning and Priorities Council, 1999-2000 • Planning Committee, Center for the Study of Social Justice (1999-2001) • TCNJ Provost Search Committee, 1999 • Program committee for inauguration of Pres. R. Barbara Gitenstein, 1999 • Adviser, The Signal student newspaper 1993-2005 • Member, School of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee 1990-3 1991-1994 • Member, College and Community Relations Committee (1990-91) Professional Memberships • • • • • • • Listserve Editor, Jhistory (Appointed 2004) • Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications • Society of Professional Journalists • New Jersey Press Association • Committee of Concerned Journalists • Associate Member, National Association of Black Journalists • New Jersey Technology Council • New Jersey Press Association • Member, Board of Trustees, Princeton Alumni Publications. 1997-99 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, College Money Magazine 1991-95
yes Languages • Reading knowledge of French, some Swahili Community Activities • • • Member, ASALH Advisory Board (Appointed 2004)· • Life Member, ASALH • Member, EEO/AA Advisory Board, State of New Jersey ( 2001-4) • Vice President, Class of 1978 Foundation, Princeton University (1999-2003) • Chair, 25th Anniversary Celebration, Third World Center, Princeton University (1996) • Trustee, Project Freedom (Robbinsville, New Jersey). (1994) • Member, Mercer County Club, National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, (1991-97) • Member, Mitchell Family Association (1984-present) Chaplain and newsletter editor, (1985-90) • Member, Association of Black Princeton Alumni 1978-present) • Member, ABPA Board of Directors for the following terms: 1981-82,1989-91, 1996-97 Awards Received • • • • • • • Sabbatical leave, Spring Semester, 2003 • TCNJ Faculty Involvement Award, TCNJ Office of Student Life, 2001. • TCNJ GRATA (Grants Research and Teaching Award) External Validation Award, 2001. • TCNJ Board of Trustee's Resolution Honoring CASE award, 2000. • New Jersey Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement in Support of Education (CASE), 2000. • Faculty Woman of the Year. National Council of Negro Women, TCNJ Chapter, 1998. • Unsung Heroine Service Award, Third World Center, Princeton University, 1997. • AT&T Pro Award for Public Relations Excellence, Writing Category, 1988 • Hillier Krieghbaum Science Writing Award, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications New York University. 1981. Websites Created • • • • • Don’s Spot: Tribute Website for playwright Don Evans, http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Don%20Evans/index.htm. • Professor Kim's News Notes (weblog): http://professorkim.blogspot.com • The Writer's Den (TCNJ Home Page): http://www.tcnj.edu/~kpearson