Three Accomplished Journalists to Join HU Scripp Howard School of Journalism and Communications

Hampton, VA - Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC) announced the following new full-time faculty appointments for the 2005-2006 academic school year:

Kissette L. Bundy

Bundy, an Emmy and Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA) award-winning television producer, carries an extensive career in print and broadcast media. She is currently the principal of KLB Productions and previously served as an educational supervisor at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York. She previously served as a daytime programming unit manager with WBIS and as supervising producer at WNET-TV Educational Broadcasting Corp., both of New York. She earned a National Newspaper Publishers Association Merit Award as an editor with The Philadelphia Tribune in Philadelphia, Pa.

Wayne J. Dawkins

Dawkins served as former managing editor for BlackAmericaWeb.com from September 2003 to January 2005 and continues to contribute to Black Issues Book Review. Throughout his 27-year journalism career, Dawkins has worked with the Post-Tribune in Gary, Ind., the Courier-Post in Camden-Cherry Hill, N.J., The Daily Argus in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and as associate editor with the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. He is the author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream, Black Journalists: The NABJ Story, and Black Voices in Commentary: The Trotter Group. Dawkins previously served as visiting professor at HU during the spring 2005 semester.

W. Chris Leonard

Throughout his career as an accomplished film and television producer, Leonard has worked with such organizations as National Geographic, the United States Postal Service, Philip Morris, Bristol-Myers, McGraw Hill Publications, Xerox and the New York City Police Department. He served as a set extra coordinator for Big Ticket/Spelling Entertainment’s show "Moesha" and produced, directed, and wrote installments for EPK installments on the feature film Unbowed. He was also instrumental in the pilot development and post-production procedures for TBS’s "Turner’s World of Adventure." Leonard has earned numerous recognitions including YMCA of Greater New York’s Black Achievers in Industry Award, an Emmy certificate and multiple CEBA awards.