Dr. Peggy Peattie
Lecturer
School of Journalism and Media Studies
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
SDSU
Bio
Dr. Peggy Peattie has taught photojournalism at SDSU since 2015. She brings her 40+ years professional experience working at newspapers across America to share with the next generation of visual journalists. She has covered everything from professional sports to social and environmental justice issues at the community level and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Her website www.talesofthestreet.com amplifies the stories of unhoused individuals in San Diego.
Peattie received her B.A. in journalism, minor in art, at the University of Washington. After a decade working in the field, she received a Knight Fellowship to pay for tuition while earning her M.S. degree in Visual Communication Management from Ohio University where she was named the top graduate student at Scripps School of Journalism. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership Studies and Education Sciences where her dissertation received the William P. Foster Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2022.
When not working on a personal project, freelancing, or teaching, she is paddling a surfski or outrigger canoe on the ocean, gardening, or hiking.
Education
- PhD from University of San Diego, department of Leadership Studies and Educational Sciences
Areas of Specialization
- Photojournalism
- Solutions Journalism
Interests
- Social and environmental justice issues
- Ocean paddling
Courses
- JMS 435
- JMS 530