Inducted: 2022
BARBARA ALLEN (1975- ) is an educator, editor and writer whose proudest achievements are the students she mentored. She began her career as a student at the O’Colly at Oklahoma State University where she graduated before founding the Tulsa World’s teen section, Satellite, in 1999. After getting her master’s degree at the University of Missouri, Allen returned to OSU in 2009, where she spent nine years as an adviser, adjunct professor, and eventually director of student media. In 2018, she assumed the editorship of poynter.org, before becoming director of college programming for Poynter.
