Alyssa Pointer

Alyssa Pointer is an accomplished visual storyteller based in Atlanta, GA. After earning her B.A. in photojournalism and African American studies from Western Kentucky University in 2016, she quickly established herself in the field, working as a staff multimedia journalist for The Chicago Tribune and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2024 she joined Thomson Reuters as a video journalist, where she traveled the East Coast covering breaking news, extreme weather and the 2024 Presidential election. She currently leads her creative ventures at Leola Studios, a company named after her grandmother, that focuses on providing storytelling imagery for profit and non profit businesses.