Allissa Richardson

Director of Mobile Learning

Education

Allissa Richardson is an award-winning journalist and college professor who empowers youth to report news using mobile and social media. In 2010, she founded the first-ever mobile journalism (MOJO) newsroom on a college campus and taught students to report using only iPods. Richardson has since trained students in the United States, Europe and Africa. She is the recipient of the National Association of Black Journalists' “Journalism Educator of the Year” award. Richardson is a mobile media professor at Bowie State University.