Barbara Kingsley-Wilson has been a full-time lecturer and adviser for the Daily 49er since 2004 at California State University, Long Beach. A journalist for twenty years, she covered courts, crime, education and sports for the Orange County Register, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Rochester (NY) Times-Union. She has won awards from the Orange County Press Club and contributed articles to a Register project that won the Pulitzer Prize. She lives with her family in Long Beach.