Speakers

2012 Conference Speakers

Telisa Yancy

Cassandra Clayton

Lecturer, University of Maryland

Cassandra Clayton currently teaches broadcast journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Hired as an NBC News correspondent in 1983, over the next two decades she reported from their Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., bureaus. She co-anchored a nightly news and talk program on CNBC called "The Real Story," and substitute anchored “Nightly News Weekend Edition”, “Sunrise” and the “Today” news segment.
Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, she reported and anchored for MSNBC and taught broadcast journalism at Howard University.  She has most recently served as guest host for WHUT-TV’s public affairs program, “Evening Exchange”.

Clayton earned her bachelor’s degree from Spelman College, C’78.