Marchelle Payne | Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Marchelle Payne
Assistant Dean, Executive Director of Maryland-District of Columbia Scholastic Press Association
M.A., Maryland

Office: 1117B Journalism
Phone: 301-405-2382
E-mail: mpayne@deans.umd.edu

Marchelle Payne-Gassaway has a joint appointment with the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the University's Division of Letters & Sciences. In journalism she is the executive director of the Maryland-District of Columbia Scholastic Press Association. She also served as the director of the College's American Society of Newspaper Editors' High School Journalism Institute for journalism teachers, and plays a major role in advising journalism students, coordinating the schedule of classes and outreach/recruitment to high school students. In Letters & Sciences, she serves as liaison for the Division of Letters and Sciences and assists students interested in becoming journalism majors. A four-time All-American in the triple jump for the University of Maryland track team, Payne holds bachelor's and master's degrees in family studies from the University and is currently working on a Ph.D. in the College Student Personnel Program in the College of Education.