Yes, teaching younger generations that journalism matters, and showing them how to do it by doing good journalism. Centerpiece of our effort is a documentary, which highlights the voices and contributions of Bay Area journalists.
SF Chronicle. Associated Press. Modesto Bee. SJ Mercury News. Places where I cut my teeth as a journalist.
Want the world, especially younger generations, to understand the vital role that journalists in the U.S. play as America's watchdogs.
Yumi Wilson is an assistant professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University, where she teaches a variety of writing courses. She is a graduate of Journalism and International Relations from USC in 1990. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from USF in 2007. She was a reporter and editor at various publications, including the Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle. In 2008, she published Cablinasian, a literary essay exploring multiracial identity in The Truth about the Fact, an international journal at Loyola Marymount College. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Wilson is an “Army brat” who moved around the world until she was 18.