Allissa Richardson is an award-winning journalist and college professor who empowers youth to tell their stories using mobile devices. Prof. Richardson has taught her unique brand of iPod journalism to students throughout the United States, Africa and Europe. In 2011, the U.S. Embassy of South Africa invited her to teach HIV-positive girls in South Africa to create first-person documentaries using iPods. Later that year, amid the Arab Spring revolts, Richardson was invited to Morocco to teach citizen journalism to young Muslim women. The National Association of Black Journalists awarded her its Journalism Educator of the Year award in June 2012 for her international work. Richardson is a mobile journalism professor at Bowie State University in Maryland, where she founded and directs the MOJO Lab. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School.