Meet the Faculty and Staff
Dr. Mary Ann Pearson
Professor of Communication, Director of Journalism & New Media and PR, Professor of
Journalism & New Media and Public Relations
Dr. Pearson has more than 30 years of experience in leadership, journalism, public
relations and education. She has been a professor at CBU for 15 years and worked in
public relations specializing in marketing and PR campaigns in property management,
real estate and nonprofit work. Pearson has worked with the Hispanic Literacy Program,
Give Big Riverside, Girl Scouts of America, PRSA Capio, Colton Joint Unified School
Districts Superintendent’s cabinet, International Mentoring Association and other
organizations including supporting internships with the Riverside Downtown Partnership
and PRSA.
Sonya Singh
Assistant Director of Student Publications, Visiting Professor of Journalism
Sonya Singh is a freelance writer, editor and photographer whose work has appeared
in Los Angeles magazine, NME, Nylon and Rogue, among others, specializing in music
and culture. She has photographed artists from small stages to stadiums, worked red
carpets, helped tell stories from inside maximum-security prison and interviewed hundreds
of people from U.S. ambassadors to Slash. A graduate of Pepperdine University, where
she served as the executive editor of the newspaper, Singh previously worked as an
editorial assistant in London and interned in television development at BBC Worldwide
in Los Angeles.