Our Mission

We are dedicated To empowering and providing support to our print, digital, radio, and television journalists in the Tulsa Metro area.

Our chapter members serve on and participate in domestic and global professional and student chapters. Member service, within our local communities, allows us to consistently reach, support and engage Black journalists and media professionals through meetings, panels, workshops, media institutes and regional conferences. NABJ-Tulsa also offers its members the opportunity to join multiple task forces and committees that align with their professional disciplines and goals.

Dr. Jerry Goodwin

Jerry Goodwin, LP.D, MBA, is a dynamic educator and a highly-accomplished executive with a long-standing record of success in higher education, business, communications, and non-profit management. In education, Dr. Goodwin is a college professor in mass communication and journalism at Tulsa Community College and faculty adviser to the award-winning newspaper, TCC Connection. He is a former adjunct professor in marketing at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Research at Langston University, the state’s HBCU. He is a contributing editor and writer for the state’s oldest African American prize-winning weekly newspaper, The Oklahoma Eagle. He is president of Goodwin and Grant, a public relations firm. Additionally, Dr. Goodwin is a founding member and treasurer of the National Association of Black Journalists – Tulsa chapter, president of the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists Pro Chapter, and a faculty member for the Oklahoma Collegiate Media Association. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and its Counselor Academy. Dr. Goodwin received his doctoral degree in law and policy from Northeastern University (Boston), a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Xavier University (Cincinnati).