Carole Simpson Scholarship Recurring Donation

Carole Simpson is a former RTDNA Foundation trustee and the 1996 recipient of the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award in recognition of her work to protect First Amendment Freedoms. She established the Carole Simpson Scholarship in 1991 to encourage and help minority students to overcome hurdles along their career path in electronic journalism. In a career of notable firsts, Carole Simpson has led the way for minorities and women in broadcasting. After beginning her career as a journalism educator, she went on to break barriers and raise social issues as a journalist. Simpson was the first woman to broadcast news in Chicago, the first African American woman to anchor a network TV evening newscast, and the first woman and first minority to solo moderate a presidential debate. She retired from ABC News in 2006 to become a Distinguished Journalist in the School of Communications at Emerson College in Boston. Her memoir, NewsLady, was published in 2010.

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