Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Kim Baker, an Associate Professor of Journalism at Alabama State University. As you'll hear in today's conversation, her path to graduate school and academia wasn't linear at all. She always thought she'd be working with and saving animals, but sometimes, it's takes just one little thing to change your direction and she'll tell us all about it. Kim has taught an array of journalism courses at Alabama State University, which is a HBCU, and she loves getting the opportunity to work with first generation college students and the students who come to her with no real understanding of what college is like. She trains them in writing, photography, and videography, but in doing so, she gives them a skill set that is marketable.  As she notes, her research has literally run the gamut from studying the Apocalypse in The Walking Dead to learning how fitness trackers motivate us (or don't). Kim considers herself a non-traditional student because she didn't wind up in graduate school in her 20s but that hasn't stopped her from making the most of every single opportunity, including partnering with some of her colleagues while at UA in a research work group. That research work group landed her in Japan to present several research papers at an academic conference and also helped teach her what she considers to be the most important lesson--surround yourself with the best and smartest people, and those people will teach you the most about yourself and the world around you.  In today's conversation, she tells us about a visual literacy project she worked on about what it means to be an American. We aren't going to spoil it all here, but what she tells us is fascinating about generational differences and how one easy question can be answered in so many ways.  

Definitely tune into Episode 1 of Season 4 of Revise and Resubmit! We have a fantastic lineup for you and you won't want to miss it!! 
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