Christina L. Azocar (Upper Mattaponni Tribe of the Powhatan Nation) is the director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism (CIIJ) and an adjunct assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. Her research and teaching focuses on portrayals of people of color in the news. Azocar's interest in diversity in the news media spans more than 10 years, and began with her concern about negative representations about Native Americans. Azocar serves on the boards of the Native American Journalism Association, the California Society of Newspaper Editors, Grade the News and the Sequoyah Research Center. She is also on the task force for diversity for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The Journalism Association of Community Colleges has chosen her as the Journalism Educator of the Year for 2005. She received her master's degree in Ethnic Studies and her bachelor's degree in Journalism from San Francisco State University and earned her doctorate in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan.

		(415) 338-2083
		cazocar@sfsu.edu

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