Alicia Haywood

Award-Winning Producer

Alicia Haywood is an award-winning producer who has been working in the professional media industry for 28 years. Her production background includes projects with iHeartMedia, How Stuff Works, Fusion TV, Microsoft’s AltspaceVR, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, Oprah Radio, Onion Studios, TechCrunch, ABC Radio Networks, Hebrew Seminary for the Deaf and Hearing, The Style Network, The History Channel, and SiriusXM. She has also produced content for a wide range of brands including: Intel, Jockey, Arby’s Foundation, Britannica, Jupiter Medical Center, Ask The Mediatrician, and LiveNation. Her career achievements span every type of media format (television, film, audio, print, digital, virtual reality, OTT, etc.), yet her most fulfilling successes stem from her role as an educator—making lasting impressions on the minds of the next generation. She is passionate about helping people better understand their relationship with media. In 2018, she founded The iSpeakMedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing media literacy education in communities that need it most. She teaches convergence journalism at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, and is currently pursuing her PhD in curriculum and instruction at Florida Atlantic University, where she also teaches a course on Global Citizenship. In 2015, she played an instrumental role in launching Media Literacy Week in the United States. And every now and then, she officiates weddings.