Alicia Haywood

Alicia Haywood is an award-winning producer who has been working in the professional media industry for 25 years. With notable career achievements spanning television, film, audio, and digital media platforms, her most fulfilling successes stem from her role as an educator—making lasting impressions on the minds of the next generation. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, and is also the founder of The iSpeakMedia Foundation, which focuses on advancing media literacy education in communities that need it most. In addition to steering her own non-profit efforts, Alicia serves on the boards of the Museum of Broadcast Communications and the National Association for Media Literacy Education, where she played an instrumental role in launching Media Literacy Week in the United States in 2015. She is a member of the Chicago Literacy Alliance, and is working alongside legislators in the state of Illinois on the creation of a Media Literacy Task Force to inform K-12 curriculum policy.