Educator
Naomi Kooker is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Regis College in Weston, Mass. She teaches journalism, public speaking, public relations and other communication and writing courses in the Marshall M. Sloane School of Business and Communication. She also teaches writing in the School of Arts and Sciences. Naomi brings her professional experience as an award-winning multimedia journalist and reporter to help guide her students.
She is the faculty advisor for The Regis Herald, a student newspaper of Regis College, which relaunched in Spring 2023.
Rockstar (two-time Emmy Award-winning) journalist and anchor for Channel 7, Amaka Ubaka, graciously helped Regis College students, faculty, and staff celebrate the relaunch of the college’s students newspaper, The Regis Herald in Spring 2023.
Naomi earned Level II certification at The Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center, Boston University.
Naomi has also taught writing workshops and classes at Boston University Gastronomy program, Grub Street, and Mediabistro.
Naomi began her career working as a sous chef in a Manhattan restaurant before turning to writing full time. She lives in Greater Boston.
Naomi worked in the field of public relations—where she started her career in New York City—before turning to journalism.
Her teaching philosophy is simple: Listen to students, meet them where they are, and guide them to discover and express their own creativity and voices. Hers is a mentorship pedagogy.
Naomi is a Boston-based multimedia journalist. She is an executive producer for the full-length documentary, Why Are You You? Her other production work includes storyboard creation for an award-winning documentary-short, Making Mill Town. Her articles have appeared in Bon Appetit, The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Yankee Magazine, Time Out travel guides and other media outlets. Her experience includes TV and radio broadcasting.
Naomi earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction at Bay Path University and her Master of Arts at Regis College’s Public Heritage Institute, where her thesis was titled: “Celebrity Chef: Oxymoronic and Authentic Ways Define America’s New Obsession”. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Drew University.
