The film follows Daymara Baker, who walks away from a senior position at a multinational brand to bake bread and change the world. Rockin’ Baker Academy is a workforce development program that provides cadet bakers with intellectual disabilities a comprehensive set of marketable skills that translate easily to the culinary industry and many other jobs. Read More…

Noah Arceneaux has been a professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University since 2007, including a two-year stint as Director (2018-2020). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia with a dissertation that examined the role of department stores during the early years of American broadcasting. In 2008, this work was named the best dissertation of the year by three national academic organizations, the American Journalism Historians Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Broadcast Education Association. Read More…

Holding 12 years of extensive experience at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Alshehab brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his academic endeavors. In addition to his academic role, Alshehab volunteers as an editor for academic journals and research symposiums. Alshehab holds a master’s degree in journalism and media studies from the University of South Florida Saint Petersburg and a Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University. Alshehab’s research interests include science journalism, digital journalism, fake news, and political communication. Read More…

Tim Hudson, professor emeritus, Point Park University, has been named the 2024 Broadcast Education Association’s Distinguished Education Service Award (DESA) winner. Hudson was an early designer and advocate of college programs in multi-platform journalism and multimedia production. Read more…

Michael D. “Mike” Murray, University of Missouri Board of Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus on the UM-St. Louis campus has been awarded the 2024 LAS. For over a half-century Murray has been a leader in program development and the initiation of new academic degrees in appointments he has held.  Read the full release.