Yumi Wilson

Yumi Wilson is a longtime professor at San Francisco State University and guest lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is former reporter and editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Associated Press in Los Angeles, where she helped to cover the aftermath of the Rodney King beating at the hands of LAPD officers.

In addition to teaching, Yumi has taken on numerous side gigs, mainly to stay current in her ever-changing field. In 2012, she was hired by Linkedin, where she learned how to show her peers in journalism and other communications the tips and tricks necessary to get their LinkedIn profiles to "all-star" status. That amazing experience allowed her to expand her repertoire of class offerings to social media and journalism and write a book called Social Media Journalism.

Currently, Yumi is teaching a course called Journalism and Social Media at UC Berkeley, where she is teaching how AI is starting to change everything we know about social media and even journalism.

When Yumi is not teaching or working at one of her side gigs, her guilty pleasures are as follows: Writing YA fiction (nothing published so far), traveling to faraway places on a whim, and watching Paw Patrol toy videos with her four-year-old grandson.