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Carole Simpson is a former member of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation Board of Trustees. She established the Carole Simpson Scholarship to encourage and help minority students overcome hurdles along their career path. Carole Simpson Scholarship winners are working as reporters, producers and anchors in television and radio stations across the country.

Simpson retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College's School of Communications in Boston. In a career of notable firsts, in 1992 Simpson became the first woman and the first African American to moderate a presidential debate. She is completing a book on her 40 years as a pioneering African American woman in the field of journalism. Simpson is a commentator for National Public Radio and a frequent political analyst on "Larry King Live." In 1996, Simpson receive the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award in recognition of her work to protect First Amendment Freedoms.

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Carole Simpson Speech to the RTNDA Convention, September 16, 2000

Carole Simpson bio

Emerson College Department of Journalism

1992 Drakeel Burns

1993 Lourdes Alcaniz

1994 Arun Khosla

1995 Hope Lorraine Bartlett

1996 Ingkeua “Klare” Ly

1997 Zaneta T. Lee

1998 Holly Harris

1999 Vicky D. Nguyen, University of San Francisco

2001 Lanaea Chaunte Parker, Louisiana State

2002 Alexandra Harold, Eastern Illinois University

2003 Deanna Garcia, New Mexico State

2004 Alexis Hunt, Indiana University

2005 Damon Maloney, Columbia College

2006 Jeffrey Preval, Hofstra University

2007 Chamise Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University

2008 Brandon Lewis, University of Missouri

2009 Lina Washington, Arizona State

2010 Gardenia Coleman - Click here to view some of Gardenia's work.

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