The Moody-Ramirez Belden Endowed Scholarship for Diversity in Journalism December 28, 2021
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The Moody-Ramirez Belden Endowed Scholarship for Diversity in Journalism was established in 2021 by Dr. Mia N. Moody-Ramirez and Tom Belden.
This scholarship is a collaborative effort between Tom Belden and Janice Miller, Ella Prichard and Mia Moody-Ramirez that they began discussing with Bob Darden in the fall of 2020. They wanted to create a scholarship for journalism students similar to Baylor’s Trailblazer Scholars Program, a scholarship designed to recognize the importance of fostering diversity and mutual respect at Baylor University.
Moody-Ramirez was able to provide funds for the scholarship after being awarded the Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year Award, which recognizes a Baylor faculty member who makes a superlative contribution to the learning environment at Baylor through teaching, research and service. The award comes with a $20,000 prize.
They are excited to be able to award the scholarship to students who are members of the Baylor National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), which was reinstated in 2003 with Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., serving as the adviser.
Founded by 44 men and women on Dec. 12, 1975, in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the world. Many of NABJ’s 3,300 members also belong to one of the professional and student chapters that serve Black journalists.
Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D., is a Professor and Chair of the Baylor University Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media. She joined Baylor in 2001 and has maintained an active research portfolio in addition to her teaching and leadership roles. Her research emphasizes media framing of people of color, women and political candidates, the pros and cons of social media in political campaigns and how historical stereotypes are found in social media platforms.
The author or co-author of four books, Dr. Moody-Ramirez has also been widely published in a variety of academic and industry journals. She was honored with the Outstanding Woman in Journalism award by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and received the organization’s Lionel Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education. She is also a 2019 Fellow in the AEJMC Institute for Diverse Leadership.
Mia’s husband Augustine is a material’s handler at Packless Industries and disc jockey. She is the proud mother of Heidi, Timothy, and William.
Tom Belden worked as a professional journalist for more than 40 years and now devotes much of his time to supporting other journalists working for nonprofit and underfunded commercial news” “organizations. Tom graduated from Baylor in 1970 with a B.A. majoring in journalism and history. He received an M.S. in 1971 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a reporter and editor for four years for United Press International in six bureaus, including managing space flight coverage from Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a year. He worked for Belden Associates in Dallas for two years doing market research for newspapers. He returned to reporting for the Dallas Morning News from 1977 to 1979 before moving to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Over the next 31 years, he wrote more than 4,000 articles for The Inquirer about a range of topics, devoting the majority to covering airlines, airports, aircraft, railroads, hospitality and tourism. From 1988 to 2010 he wrote a business travel column for The Inquirer and the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. He shared regional and national awards for his reporting on Philadelphia airline service.
Tom’s wife, Janice A. Miller, is a retired college financial aid administrator who worked for more than three decades at Southern Methodist University, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Trinity University in San Antonio.
This endowed scholarship fund provides assistance to deserving students attending Baylor University, Waco, Texas, with preference given to students who are pursuing a degree in the Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media, and who are members of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
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