She worked 12 years as a reporter for several California dailies including the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has covered a variety of topics including issues in black communities around the Bay Area, education, religion and ethics, and Mexico/U.S. border issues. Her research emphasis is in intercultural communication and diversity as it relates to reporting minority communities. She is the co-author/co-editor of a forthcoming book “Reporting Inequality: Methods and tools for covering racial and ethnic communities” to be released in 2017. Venise has an M.A. in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana.