PhD - Journalism and Mass Communication; University of Maryland College Park
MPS - Africana Studies; Cornell University
BA - History; Frostburg State University

Jared A. Ball is a father and husband. After that, he is a Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and is founder/curator of imixwhatilike.org, a multimedia hub of emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting. Ball is also author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020)