Phylissa D. Mitchell is Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism for the 2006-07 academic year. She teaches media law, broadcast reporting and producing, critical theory in media, and political campaign analysis. In 2001-02, she was a visiting instructor of journalism at Washington & Lee. She has also taught introductory broadcast writing, broadcast news bureau, media law, media ethics, and critical race and gender theory at West Virginia University, where she received diversity grants in 2003 and 2005. In 2004, she was a Poynter Institute fellow in "Diversity Across Curricula." She was a news producer for KCTS-TV in Seattle, Wash., CBS News and ABC News in New York and NBC Newschannel in Charlotte, N.C., and a reporter for Media General newspapers in central Virginia. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Washington & Lee University School of Law. Her research interests include privacy, political campaign financing and critical theory.