Mia Moody-Ramirez
Waco, Texas
Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor of Journalism, Public Relations & New Media
She has conducted research in the areas of portrayal of minority women in the media, reality television, racial stereotyping of women in rap music, the pros and cons of using social media in political campaign, and the continuing stereotyping of a small East Texas town more than a decade after a hate crime there in which a black man was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck.
Moody-Ramirez is a former editor of the Missionary Baptist General Convention of Texas' Women's Ministry Magazine editor, a former staff writer and columnist for the Waco Tribune-Herald and a former editor and publisher of Elegant Woman magazine.
She has been featured in reports by NPR, Boston Globe, MSNBC and CBS Dallas/Fort Worth.