Meredith D. Clark

Meredith D. Clark
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Dr. Meredith D. Clark is an associate professor of race and political communication in the Hussman School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a two-time graduate of Florida A&M University (B.A., political science, 2002; M.S., newspaper journalism, 2006). She earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. She is a journalist by training, having worked for the Capital Outlook (Fla.), the Tallahassee Democrat, the Austin American-Statesman and the Raleigh News & Observer. For a while, she contributed to Poynter.org’s diversity column and USA TODAY. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power – covering everything from media processes like newsroom hiring and reporting practices to the digital narratives constructed by social media communities. She has studied Black Twitter since 2010, and she is finishing a book about it. TheRoot.com thought enough of her work to name her No. 66 of the most 100 influential Black Americans on their 2015 Root 100 list. Meredith is a "Kentucky girl by raising, a cat person by nature, and a devoted fan of Grey’s Anatomy. Put fresh peonies, Scottish Terriers, good jellybeans, and mint chocolate chip ice cream in a summoning circle, and *poof!* I’ll appear." Founding Member of the Fivehead Gang.