Meet the Faculty and Staff
Lancer Media Group Faculty and Staff
Sonya Singh, M.A.
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.
Dr. Victoria Brodie
Associate Professor of Public Relations, Chair
James Kruppa, M.F.A.
Adjunct Professor of Journalism, CBU TV Faculty Adviser
Dr. Mary Ann Pearson APR
Professor of Communication, Director of Journalism & New Media and PR Academic Programs
Dr. Pearson has more than 30 years of experience in leadership, journalism, public
relations and education. She has been a professor at CBU for 17 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 Paul and Annie Kienel
Leadership Institute at CBU, Colton Joint Unified School District’s Hispanic Literacy
Program, Give Big Riverside, Girl Scouts of America, PRSA, Capio, Colton Joint Unified
School District-Superintendent’s cabinet, International Mentoring Association and
other organizations including supporting internships with the Riverside Downtown Partnership.
Jim Veneman
Adjunct Professor of Journalism