Miki Turner is currently an associate professor of professional practice at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. An award-winning photojournalist, Turner spent more than 40 years working in the media industry specializing in print, television, radio and web production.

As a sports columnist at the Oakland Tribune, where she became the first Black female to write a regularly featured sports column at a major daily newspaper, she was well known for looking beyond the Xs and Os and writing personality columns on athletes from the franchise player to the bench warmer. After leaving the Bay Area, Turner was a Pac-10 and Big West beat writer for the Orange County Register and covered pro tennis before moving on to NBA beat.

Turner has also worked at ESPN as a producer and writer, MSNBC as a columnist, AOL as an on-air personality, the NFL Network as a producer and as the West Coast senior writer for Jet magazine and Ebony.com.

Her work has been published in more than 100 magazines and newspapers and her work has been exhibited in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Los Angeles and Hampton, Va.; and she has curated exhibitions at USC.

She is the author of two books—the best-selling journey to the woman i’ve come to love and tomorrow, and a 2015 prize winner in photography at Firenze Biennale in Florence, Italy. Most recently she was honored with the Black Women in Film Network Behind the Lens award for her work in journalism; and a 2021 USC faculty mentoring award.She is also a member of the USC Annenberg Media Equity Board and has worked on the Newhouse Diversity Committee. She is so excited about being a part of ACCSA because of how impactful it is within the Annenberg Community, and looks forward to creating rewardable, memorable experiences for ACCSA member this upcoming school year.