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Allissa Richardson is an award-winning journalist and college professor who empowers youth to tell their stories using mobile devices. Prof. Richardson has taught her unique brand of iPod journalism to students in nearly a dozen cities in Africa. Richardson won the national Journalism Educator of the Year award in June 2012 for her international work. Richardson began her media career at Jet magazine. Her work also has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Baltimore Sun.com and the Examiner newspapers. She earned the Weinstein-Luby Outstanding Young Journalist Award in 2002, and the Freedom Forum’s Chips Quinn Scholars award that same year. Richardson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School. She lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC with her husband and their pet Rottweiler. The couple recently welcomed its first child in April 2012.