Jamal Watson

Award-winning higher-education reporter Jamal Watson is executive editor of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a trade publication founded in 1984. He is also professor and associate dean at Trinity Washington University. Watson holds degrees from Georgetown University, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the University of Delaware, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PhD, Afro-American Studies). Watson is an expert on the Black press and the civil rights movement whose reporting stints include the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Globe, USA Today, and the New York Sun. He has been featured on MSNBC, ABC News, and NPR. He lives in Washington, DC, and Tampa.

Web: jamalwatson.com

Twitter: @jamalericwatson