Package Your Genius Personal Branding Podcast
Business:Careers
Allissa Richardson, PhD is the assistant professor of Journalism at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. A 2016 graduate of Package Your Genius Academy, Dr. Richardson is also a pioneer in mobile journalism, and was one of the first professional journalists to teach storytelling and reporting using smartphones and mobile cameras.
Allissa trains youth to use only smartphones, MP3 players and tablets to report news. She calls her students mobile journalists, or MOJOs. At age 25, she joined the faculty of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She served as coordinator of its journalism program, and launched and directed the Morgan MOJO Lab in 2010. Under her leadership, Morgan State became the first and only historically black college in the country to offer mobile journalism courses.
The National Association of Black Journalists said Richardson empowered her students around the globe “to speak truth to power using new media.” In spring 2012, NABJ recognized her as its Journalism Educator of the Year for her international work. In 2013, Apple, Inc. inducted Richardson into its elite Distinguished Educator program for her innovative uses of its products.
Richardson is the founder of MOJO MediaWorks. Her firm designs mobile journalism workshops for youth, educators and working journalists. Her clients include The Washington Post, PBS, Black Girls Code, GlobalGirl Media, Journalism Educators Association, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Black Enterprise has called Richardson’s fast-growing company a “feel-good tech firm on the rise.”
Richardson’s writing has appeared in Oprah Magazine, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, JET Magazine, Baltimore Sun.com, the Miami Herald and the Chicago Tribune. She earned the Weinstein-Luby Outstanding Young Journalist Award in 2002, and the Freedom Forum’s Chips Quinn Scholars award that same year. And Harvard University selected her for its prestigious Nieman Foundation Journalism Fellowship to work on a project that advances the industry.
Richardson holds a Ph.D. in Journalism Studies from the University of Maryland College Park, a Master's Degree in Magazine Publishing from Northwestern University's Medill School, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana.
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PYG 164 - Branding yourself when you RESENT what you USED TO LOVE about your brand
PYG 163 - What happens when you have to disappear, regroup, and communicate your COMEBACK?
PYG 162 - How to overcome the Imposter Syndrome that's holding your brand back
PYG 161 - Prayer and meditation as a personal brand strategy
PYG 160 - 5 Ways You're Not Monetizing Your Personal Brand (And How to Fix It In the Next 30 Days)
PYG 159 - Write it down (REWIND)
PYG 158 - From seeking to SOUGHT AFTER - How to become KNOWN (Rewind)
PYG 157 - Land a mainstream BOOK DEAL to explode your personal brand
PYG 156 - Where Package Your Genius is Going...
PYG 155: Who's keeping you from seeing yourself clearly?
PYG 154: Lead with you
PYG 153: Multi-passionate is a MYTH
PYG 152: Build on Your Foundation
PYG 151: The Snowball Effect
PYG 150: Put Yourself in Position
PYG 149: What's going on underground?
PYG 148: What would happen if you gave yourself more credit?
PYG 147: Perfectionism is costing you the gift of PRACTICE
PYG 146: The case for IMPERFECT ACTION
PYG 145: Are you being obedient to the call of your path?
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