Allison Dyche

Allison Bennett Dyche is the News Adviser to The Appalachian student-run news organization, in the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She is also an adjunct journalism instructor at the university, currently teaching an audio storytelling & podcasting class that she developed as a special topics course. She is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the interdisciplinary doctoral Media, Art, and Text (MATX) program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she's researching audio storytelling and podcasting. She serves on the board of directors for the national college media advising organization, College Media Association (CMA), in the elected role of Vice President for Member Training.
She previously served as the Director of Student Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, from 2016-2020; as the Assistant Director for Student Media at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, from 2013-2016; and as the Assistant Director of Student Media at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, from 2008-2013.
Allison holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Arts in Documentary Photography from SCAD.