Safiya Songhai, is an American film director, television anchor/reporter and beauty queen. She was the 1st runner-up to Miss Black USA 2008, representing Massachusetts.[1] Songhai was also a local winner and runner-up in both the District of Columbia and New York state pageants for the Miss America competition.[2] From 2010 - 2012, Songhai served as a professor of Mass Communications at Prairie View A&M University, receiving three teaching award nominations from students and faculty.