Faith Callens

Faith Callens is a native of Selma who has been a multimedia journalist within the Selma community since 2019, starting as an independent journalist for her own blog, called Blessed By Faith. She attended Edgewood Elementary, School of Discovery and Martin Middle School before graduating from Dallas County High School in 2015. Then she graduated from George Corley Wallace Community College in Selma in 2017 with her Associate of Science degree in computer technology systems. She then went on to obtain her bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism from the University of Montevallo in 2020.

Since her time as a journalist, Callens has worked in Central Alabama around Shelby County and in the Jefferson County communities of Trussville, Center Point and Clay being a city council and community reporter. She also has spread her journalistic skills to the state of Florida where she was a community reporter at The Villages Daily Sun and a business reporter for Mainstreet Daily News in Gainesville, which has led her to her latest job within the business working as a general assignment reporter and staff writer for the Selma Times-Journal.