I am a national journalism organization leader and longtime working professional journalist with expertise in the U.S. news industry. I currently work as executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation. SPJ is the nation’s most broad-based journalism membership organization known as a champion of journalists, strong ethical standards and freedom of the press.Previously, I was a longtime leader in the national education journalism sector, having served 12 years as executive director of the Education Writers Association and 14 years as managing editor and national reporter at the nonprofit news organization Education Week.As executive director of the nonprofit EWA, I led strategy, programming, and fundraising in support of EWA's mission to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public.In my 25-year career as an award-winning reporter and editor, I covered education from early learning through postsecondary schooling at the local, state, and national levels -- winning multiple state and national awards for education writing.From 1996 to 2010, I held various reporting and editing positions at Education Week, America’s newspaper and website of record for K-12 education. As managing editor, I oversaw digital strategy, events, and daily news publication. In previous reporting and editing positions at EdWeek, I covered or directed coverage of national and state policy, school reform, research, assessment, technology, legal affairs, philanthropy, and urban education, among other topics.A graduate of Wesleyan University, I started at daily newspapers in Connecticut and spent seven years as state education writer and editor at The Record, a daily newspaper based in Bergen County, N.J. I live outside Washington, D.C., with my family.
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