Gwen Ifill with members of the Board of Directors
Civics Club member Eileen Heinrichs
Joanne Cantor and Aarushi Agni, Asst. Editor/Teacher SSFP
Rachel Packard, Advisor KIDS-4; Jessi Gerg, KIDS-4 Assistant, Sun Prairie High,; Frederica Freyberg, Grace Richmond, student speaker for KIDS-4, Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie
Simpson Street Free Press staff. Aarush Agni, Asst. Editor/Teacher; Alex Lee, Writer; Adaezi Okoli, Senior Teen Editor; Deidre Green, Managing Editor; Frederica Freyberg, Pallav Regmi, Writer; r, Kristi Williams, Taylor Kilgore, Teen Editor; Laura McFadden. Ms. Okoli is a senior at Middleton High School, Ms. Kilgore, a junior at La Follette, and Mr. Lee and Ms. Caire, freshmen at West High. Mr. Regmi, an eighth at Hamilton Middle School.
Laura McFadden, Grace Richmond, speaker for KIDS-4 , Frederica Freyberg,Jessi Gerg of Sun Prairie High, Kristi Williams
Grace Richmond, student at Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie, accepts the Youth Grants award on behalf of Sun Prairie Media Center KIDS-4.
Adaeze Okoli, Senior Teen Editor and senior at Middleton High, accepts the Youth Grants Award for Simpson St. Free Press
Public Affairs speaker Frederica Freyberg
Frederica Freyberg speaks about her scoop about the Wisconsin Democratic senators leaving the state earlier this year
Public Affairs speaker Frederica Freyberg
Gwen Ifill gives her address
Featured speaker journalist Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill talks about the role of the media in politics
Simpson Street Free Press Editors and Writers, Alex Lee, Pallav Reemi, Deidre Green, Aarushi Agni, Gwen Ifill, Adaeze Okoli and Taylor Kilgore
Adaeze Okoli, Gwen Ifill, Grace Okoli
Jessi Gerg, Gwen Ifill, Grace Richmond, and Rachel Packard, Program Coordinator at Sun Prairie Media Center
Civics Club Board of Directors with Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill and Marcia Anderson, past Co-Chair and the first African-American woman to be promoted to major general in the US Army
Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, interviewing national and international newsmakers. She is also the best-selling author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. She has covered six Presidential campaigns and moderated vice presidential debates—in 2004 and 2008. Prior to joining PBS in 1999 she was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political reporter for The Washington Post. Her work as a journalist has been honored by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center, and Ebony magazine. A native of New York City, Gwen Ifill graduated from Simmons College in Boston and has received more than 20 honorary doctorates.
Frederica Freyberg is a reporter and anchor of Here and Now on Wisconsin Public Television. After nearly twenty years as a commercial television reporter, in markets including Madison, Green Bay, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis, Freyberg joined the WPT staff in 2003. She has earned to two Chicago/ Midwest Emmy awards, and she is a three-time winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for her WPT reporting. Originally from Madison, Freyberg is a journalism graduate of UW Madison. She and her husband, Gary, have three children. Frederica Freyberg's remarks to the Madison Civics Club
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