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Yael Even Or is a journalist and radio producer based in Los Angeles.

2017 fellowship recipient

Bethany Denton is a producer and managing editor of the podcast Here Be Monsters on KCRW.

2017 fellowship recipient

Brooke Lewis currently lives in Houston, Texas, and is a breaking news reporter for the city desk at The Houston Chronicle.

2017 fellowship recipient

Often called the ‘new’ Orange Is the New Black, Chandra Bozelko is a writer and thought leader on all issues related to criminal justice reform.

2017 fellowship recipient

Monica Vendituoli is the night crime and breaking news reporter at the Fayetteville Observer newspaper in Fayetteville, N.C.

2017 fellowship recipient

Mia Warren is a production assistant for StoryCorps, working on its weekly NPR broadcast at StoryCorps headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y.

2017 fellowship recipient

Corinne Boyer is a news reporter for Eugene Weekly. She covers human rights, civil rights, social justice, Congress and the Oregon Legislature.

2017 fellowship recipient

Christal Hayes works at the Orlando Sentinel as a breaking news reporter.

2017 fellowship recipient

Louise Dewast is a multimedia reporter based in Washington D.C. where she moved to cover the 2016 presidential campaign and election.

2017 fellowship recipient

Lauren McGaughy has covered state government for three regional newspapers, most recently handling LGBT issues and higher education at The Dallas Morning News’ Capitol bureau in Austin, Texas.

2017 fellowship recipient

Journalism and Women Symposium is among more than 80 journalism groups in support of #pressfreedom, condemning the efforts by the current administration to turn the public against the media.

The Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) and 60 other journalism organizations have requested a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to discuss access to government.

By Justine Griffin, JAWS Board Member

Can you believe the Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP) is already next month?

A lot of work has gone on behind the scenes at the Journalism and Women Symposium to put together the programming for CAMP.

From selecting a neat city and comfortable hotel, to bringing together an impressive lineup of speakers and all the logistics in between, it’s been work, but also collaborative. A lot of our members have volunteered countless hours to put all these pieces in place.

JAWS member Carole Ashkinaze Kay, a pioneering journalist who served as the first woman on the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s editorial board, died of cancer Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in hospice in Atlanta.

Carole shared her hospice news with JAWS and her other friends in early August, continuing to read the email list and sharing her life on Facebook.

“Journalism and Women Symposium members are saddened by Carole’s passing,” said JAWS President Sandra Fish. “Carole and her career embodied the JAWS mission to support ‘the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism’ and to work ’toward a more accurate portrayal of the whole society.’ “

By Linda Kramer Jenning, JAWS Board Member

A friend, also a member of JAWS, told me recently about an unnerving experience on the Metro. Someone stood up and offered her a seat.

She did not think that she looked old enough to warrant the offer. She’s trim and fit. When we talked about it, she explained that she didn’t feel “old inside.”

I know what she means. Busy writing a story or grading papers or taking a break to go to spin class, in my head I don’t feel my age. However, I am happy to claim a senior discount whenever I can. I also like the fact that decades in journalism means I had notes from covering Hillary Clinton in the 1990s that I could dig up to use in a recent column.

It’s not easy figuring out how to age in our profession.

By Amy Resnick, JAWS Treasurer

My favorite professor told me more than 20 years ago that to be a good journalist and a good consumer of news, you had to study bylines. Learn what different journalists stand for and learn who you trust. What I love about JAWS is that it has enabled me to go even further, to meet the women behind so many of the bylines I have read and get to know them and trust them and to be part of a community that includes them.

By Pamela Moreland, JAWS Board Member

In a world when goods and services are at your fingertips 24/7, isn’t it time that you’re to be able to order JAWS gear anytime, anywhere, from any mobile device?

Yes, it is time. And soon, that dream will be a reality.

For almost a year, the JAWS board has been working on a plan to create the JAWS Marketplace, an online home for JAWS goods. From coffee mugs to T-shirts, reusable canvas bags to iPhone covers and yoga pants, the JAWS Marketplace will be the digital headquarters for merchandise emblazoned with JAWS logos.

By Angela Greiling Keane, JAWS Board Member

I joined an amazing group of women one recent weekend in Washington to hear from the talented Jill Geisler about honing leadership skills. It was the second in what I hope will be a longer series of JAWS leadership trainings for which Jill has generously given her time.

One thing that struck me about the participants was that most of them, like myself, weren’t freshly minted college graduates. Most were seasoned, midcareer professionals looking to up our game and our careers through newsroom leadership. Jill’s message was one of empowerment, showing us not just how to be journalism leaders but also how to frame the experience many of us already have to show our aptitude for management or for leading from positions we’re already in.

Mary Pember is a freelance journalist focusing on Native issues, people and culture.

2016 fellowship recipient

Angilee Shah is a journalist for PRI, based in Minneapolis.

2016 fellowship recipient