About me
Kamille D. Whittaker is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Digital Media at Clark Atlanta University. She teaches in the Mass Media Arts department and serves as the Journalism Sequence Coordinator and Faculty Advisor for the student-led The Panther newspaper and Communication Arts Journal. In 2020, she co-founded the award-winning community journalism nonprofit Canopy Atlanta. She also most recently served as managing editor of Atlanta Magazine. Her tenure in journalism is rooted in the Black Press—from Black Voice News newspaper in her hometown of Riverside, California, to Liberator Magazine, Atlanta Tribune, and Atlanta Daily World. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia's MFA program in Narrative Nonfiction, and is a Political Science and Journalism graduate of the (former) John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University. She’s currently researching the Caribbean presence in the South through a narrative and digital humanities storytelling project entitled Perhaps, to Bloom.