David Love
Assistant Teaching Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Faculty
Biography
David A. Love is a journalist, commentator, and professor whose work examines politics, social justice, human rights, race, criminal justice, and inequality. He teaches courses such as Media Ethics and Law; Gender, Race, and Class in the Media; and Media, Movements, and Community Engagement: NJ Spark, a social justice journalism lab that brings students together with media makers and community partners to create reporting with and for underserved communities.
Love writes for ContrabandCamp and serves as executive editor of BlackCommentator.com. His commentary and reporting have appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, theGrio, The Appeal, The Nation, The Guardian, The Progressive, Bloomberg Opinion, and HuffPost, among others. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC, SiriusXM, WURD, CBC News, and ABC News Radio, and previously worked as a producer for “Democracy Now!” He is a contributor to books including “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019,” “States of Confinement: Policing, Detention and Prisons,” “At the Tea Party,” and “Current Controversies: The Death Penalty.”
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., East Asian Studies, Harvard University
Certificate, Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford