He oversees all content created, acquired, and aired on the statewide public television network's TV channels and online properties. Under his leadership MPT has been nominated for 174 Emmy Awards having won 56. As an Executive Producer Travis is a five-time Emmy Award Winner and nine-time Telly Award Winner. He is the founder of HBCU Week NOW, a multiplatform distributor of content about historically Black colleges and universities and is the co-executive producer of the national PBS film, "Becoming Thurgood," slated to air on PBS stations nationwide on PBS on Tuesday, September 9th at 10 pm. 

Prior to his arrival at MPT, Travis served as chief content officer for University of North Carolina Television/UNC-TV (now PBS North Carolina). During his three years in this role with the public television station, he provided editorial vision and garnered support for UNC-TV's educational services and programming content on its four channels and online properties.

Travis also executive vice president and chief operating officer for the Atlanta-based Black Family Channel, where he drove the channel's distribution growth from availability in two cities to more than 3,600 cities, 48 states, and 31 million homes while managing affiliate sales, advertising, programming, and launching sports and news divisions. While there, he executive produced over 250 live nationally broadcast HBCU football and basketball games. 

Travis earned an undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism from Morgan State University in 1992, where he began his career as the editor of the campus newspaper, The Spokesman. He has the distinction of serving as the spokesperson for the 1990 Morgan Student Protest dubbed "Six Days of Determination," the largest and longest organized student protest in the history of Maryland which demanded equitable funding for Morgan from the State of Maryland. The protest was the catalyst for more than $1.5 B in on campus renovations for the University over three decades.

Travis holds a master’s degree in entrepreneurship and education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He has completed further executive education study at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 

Travis serves on the Board of Trustees at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he received an honorary doctor of humane letters from the university in recognition of his more than 25 years of service to the community as a media and non-profit executive. Travis has served on the Foundation Board of Morgan State University and is currently the Chair of the Board of Visitors for Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and Communications. In 2023, Travis received the Morgan State University’ Distinguished Achievement Award, as the Founder’s Day Convocation Speaker. 

A Raleigh, NC native, Travis lives in Laurel, MD with his wife Angela (a North Carolina Central University graduate), and his daughter Trae (a 2023 graduate of Morgan State University), who recently won four Telly Awards and two Emmy’s for outstanding content direction.