By D. Thompson
Allison Seymour, an Emmy award-winning anchor at WUSA TV 9 News, will address over 400 graduates at Bowie State University’s Fall Commencement ceremony on December 22, at 9 a.m. at the Leonidas S. James Physical Education Complex. She currently anchors WUSA’s early morning show Get Up DC.
Seymour began her career in television at the ABC News Washington Bureau. Her first on-air job was in Upstate New York in 1993. In 1998, she accepted an anchor position in St. Louis, Missouri but returned home to D.C. and began a 21 year career with WTTG FOX 5 until she departed the station in 2020 for CBS affiliate WUSA TV 9.
Seymour is a fixture in greater metropolitan D.C., active in community events, and a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Mass Media from Hampton University and a master’s in Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina.
