A tenured professor of journalism at Santa Monica College, Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins was an adjunct instructor at USC and Assistant Director of Student Media at Loyola Marymount University. She co-founded Get Media PR, was a media relations consultant for The Harrell Group, adjunct professor at Richland College, and anchor reports at NBC 5- Dallas, KLAS 8 News- TV and KFOX -TV. Ashanti served as President of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists. She received a B.A. Degree in Sociology from Columbia University and a Masters Degree in Journalism from the University of Miami. Hailing from Virginia Beach, VA., where she graduated from Norfolk Academy, this wife and mother is committed and conscientious!
