Originally from Williamsville, Trinidad and Tobago, Shearon Roberts graduated as valedictorian of Dillard University and earned her Master's in Mass Communication from Louisiana State University. She has worked as a freelance reporter and journalist in Costa Rica as well as for the Miami Today News, China Daily U.S.A., and the Trinidad Guardian after having interned with newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Shearon has worked as an assistant lecturer at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies teaching communication studies and oral communication. She co-authored an article entitled 'Visual Agenda-Setting & Proximity after Hurricane Katrina: A study of those closest to the event' in Visual Communication Quarterly. This article was co-authored with LSU Associate Professor Andrea Miller with whom she is also co-authoring a book on crisis coverage in the Gulf Coast. During her academic career, Shearon also produced both undergraduate and graduate documentaries. She also works in freelance photography and online news coverage in addition to print freelance work. At the Stone Center, Shearon focused her research on international, Latin American and Caribbean news coverage, Latin American and Caribbean foreign image and crisis news, particularly that in Haiti. Shearon graduated from Tulane with her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies in May 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Xavier University in New Orleans.
