professor kim pearson

Kim Pearson has taught journalism, professional writing and humanities courses at The College of New Jersey since 1990.

She is also a journalist, a former public relations manager, published poet and respected blogger.

At TCNJ, Pearson advises the school newspaper, coordinates the professional writing minor and creates both real and virtual media enterprises with her students. This multi-talented scholar teaches the African American Studies department’s core course on the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Dubois, and is also one of the core faculty designers of TCNJ’s new Interactive Multimedia Major.

Pearson has more than 25 years' writing and editing experience. Her work has appeared in magazines ranging from Emerge to the Royal Canadian Journal of Radio astronomy and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. She is also a former contributing editor for The Quarterly Black Review of Books. Her most recent work has appeared in Africana.com and The Revealer.

In 2003, Pearson contributed to The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections, the first interactive Black History Month kit published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). She contributed to the 2004 kit, Before Brown, Beyond Boundaries, and is co-editor for the 2005 kit, The Niagara Movement Revisited.

Professor Pearson holds an AB in Politics from Princeton University, and an MA in journalism from New York University. Her memberships include the Society of Professional Journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

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