Lorraine Lee joined Prezi in October as its first managing editor, building out a strategy that uses inspiring and relevant content to attract and engage Prezi users. She joined Prezi after 6 years at LinkedIn. Outside of work, she was invited to be an on-court announcer for a professional men’s tennis tournament, which showcased tennis stars like Sam Querrey and Stevie Johnson and saw hundreds of fans in attendance.
Brittany Marshall won a 2018 Capital Emmy Award for her work as producer for WUSA9 TV in Washington D.C. She received an Emmy for best weekend newscast. Brittany now serves as director of media relations for the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration.
Karen Entriken recently began a new role as Marketing Manager at Franklin Energy Services. The company designs and implements energy efficiency programs for utility, state, and municipality clients nationwide. Karen manages a team of marketing professionals to support energy companies in the mission to achieve energy efficiency and sustainability goals for industries and households.
Mauricio Pena, a news reporter for Block Club Chicago, was named one of the Chicago Scholars 35 under 35 on March 10.
Mauricio Peña covers Pilsen, Little Village, West Loop and Back of the Yards. Before joining Block Club Chicago, Peña was an Associate Digital Editor at Chicago magazine. He previously worked as a breaking news reporter at DNAinfo, and an investigative reporter covering immigration and equality at the Desert Sun for the USA Today Network. His investigative, data-driven series on heat deaths and illnesses among farmworkers won state and regional awards for highlighting the plight of California farmworkers.
Peña was a Staff Research Associate at the UCLA School of Nursing where he managed a research laboratory before getting his master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Chicago Scholars 5th annual 35 under 35 Awards recognizes a group of diverse, talented young professionals making an impact in Chicago. Chicago Scholars is a mentoring and leadership development organization that helps first-generation college students and students from under-resourced communities navigate the complex transitions into college, through college, and beyond to a career.
After six years as an Editor at LinkedIn, Lorraine joined visual communications platform Prezi in October as its first Managing Editor. At Prezi, Lorraine leads the Editorial team, leveraging the top Prezi content to educate, inform and inspire people all over the world.
Lorraine also had the honor of joining the Council of 100, a prestigious invite-only organization of Northwestern alumnae. Membership selection is based on factors including career trajectory and achievements and commitment to mentoring/service.
Most recently, she attended Poynter Institute’s Leadership Academy for Women in Media, a highly competitive week-long program focused on the skills and knowledge needed to rise to the highest levels of media leadership. The program receives hundreds of applications each year; Lorraine was accepted into the 2020 Winter Cohort alongside 29 other women.
Shadan Kapri (MSJ13)
THE RED MOVEMENT provides a new perspective on how to combat modern-day slavery while protecting the environment.
The reality is impossible to deny any longer. Modern-day slavery is more widespread now than during the transatlantic slave trade with more people living in slave-like conditions than ever before in history. At the same time, the environment is being harmed at an unprecedented pace. These harsh realities have led to igniting THE RED MOVEMENT around the world.
The RED MOVEMENT is a global call to action of focused and deliberate change to end all forms of modern-day slavery and stop the destruction of the environment. The stunning truth is that slavery never really ended; it just changed form. People are still bought and sold in public auctions, forced to sell their bodies to survive, or work in hidden factories under unbearable conditions. Some toil away on farms and even on construction sites of some of the world’s most famous sporting events.
The forced labor of slaves can be linked back to certain toys we buy, clothes we wear, and even foods we eat. Slave labor is used in mining, and too often those basic raw materials find their way into electronics, computers, smartphones, cars, cosmetics, and even jewelry.
Slavery never stopped. It just expanded to include innocent men, women, and children from every nationality and race. Modern-day slavery, in all its various forms, is more profitable now than ever before, and its connection to the environment has remained a mystery for far too long.
We are in the midst of the greatest human rights and environmental crisis in history, and most people are completely unaware until now. Until THE RED MOVEMENT.
Natalie and Michael Tomko (MSJ 12) welcomed a daughter, Amelia Grace, on April 29. Go ‘Cats!
Emily Glazer, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was recently featured in the Netflix documentary series “Dirty Money” for her reporting on Wells Fargo.
Glazer covered Wells Fargo for five years, breaking news and writing enterprise articles on countless regulatory investigations and problems across one of the largest U.S. banks. Through source development, Glazer convinced contacts to share internal documents, record phone calls and take notes during internal meetings to get a sense of what was happening inside the bank, an eye no other publication had. Her reporting has been cited in congressional hearings and has forced Wells Fargo to disclose more information.
Glazer is featured in the Dirty Money episode “The Wagon Wheel” that focuses on Wells Fargo’s misdeeds and wrongdoings.
Brian M. Rosenthal, an investigative reporter on the Metro Desk of The New York Times, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting on May 4 for a series of stories about predatory lending in the New York City taxicab industry. The five-part series showed how taxi industry leaders made hundreds of millions of dollars by inflating the price of taxi medallions — the permits that allow drivers to own their cabs — and trapping thousands of immigrant buyers in loans they could not afford. The stories prompted criminal investigations and arrests, government reforms and an ongoing $810 million effort by the New York State Attorney General to bail out cabdrivers. The series also won a George A. Polk Award on February 19.
Elizabeth Schulze joined ABC News as a Multi-Platform Reporter based in Washington, D.C. She was previously a reporter at CNBC.