On February 19, 2019, at 4:30 pm, Denison hosted an interviewing workshop with journalist Brittany King. The event was co-sponsored by the Journalism Program and the Center for Black Studies and supported by the Mellon Writing in Place grant. About 20 faculty and students from a diverse range of majors and disciplines attended whose interests in interviewing spanned conducting interviews for research, working within the field of journalism, or writing professionally.
Brittany King is a full-time freelancer in Indianapolis dedicated to covering marginalized communities and supporting diverse newsrooms, ad agencies, and magazine staffs. Brittany graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2015 with a BA in Mass Media Communications and has since worked with the Fuller Project, Food Before Love, and the Indianapolis Recorder. This visit was organized by Jack Shuler, chair of the Journalism program and Jessica Nelson, visiting assistant professor of English.
While on campus, Brittany King visited several classes in the Journalism Program as well as “Black Women and Organizational Leadership” taught by Dr. Toni King in the Black Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs. In Dr. King’s class, Brittany King described how her identity as a Black woman has made her particularly passionate about representing Black women’s lives and voices through her work. She shared some wisdom and advice with students about their own leadership by encouraging them to claim their own “space in the world” as they pursue what they love and to always be intentional about how they “show up,” to be fully present for what is important to them.
