Associate Professor 
vsaunders@howard.edu 

Vicci Lovette Saunders is an Associate Professor in the Media, Film, and Journalism Department in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University where she teaches “Scriptwriting,” “Advanced Scriptwriting,” and “Television and Film Thesis – Writing.” She is also the Director of the WHUR Howard University Radio Network Multicast Division, and manages four radio channels airing seventy-eight programs combined. She is a co-founder of the NAB Media Sales Institute at Howard University. Ms. Saunders served as Supervising Producer and Writer for the three part documentary series “Brown v Board of Education for PBS Howard University, and is currently working on a documentary on Melvin Lindsey and “The Quiet Storm.”

She received her MFA from the University of Southern California in Professional Writing for Performance Media. Ms. Saunders earned a Bachelors Degree from Spelman College in Political Science in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ms. Saunders worked at Black Entertainment Television in Washington D.C., J. Walter Thompson Advertising in Los Angeles, Fosstone Productions in Virginia, and Motown Records in Los Angeles.