Yvette Walker is Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Administration at Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma. She teaches the Introduction to Media class at Gaylord College and is a member of the Diversity Council at OU. She has been a newspaper editor, a news ombudsman and has supervised online content management systems for websites. Walker has a Master’s degree in media management from the University of Missouri and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is a native of Chicago and has also lived and worked in Indiana, Texas, Michigan, Missouri and Oklahoma. She has two cats, Rudy and Jade, and a black dog named Lemon.