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I’m Audrey, a former reporter for Lee Enterprises. From May 2022 to July 2025 I worked for the company including as the sole news reporter for The Chippewa Herald covering rural western Wisconsin from Chippewa Falls.
In March, my coverage of 2024 campaign visits to the Chippewa Valley by former Vice President Kamala Harris and then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance earned me first place for Localized National Story in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest.
The Chippewa Herald, where I was the only reporter in the news department, secured first place in General Excellence, a prestigious award that acknowledges outstanding quality in all facets of print and digital newspaper publishing this year and clinched first for Best Headlines.
I won first place for General News Story in 2023 on a Dunn County referendum that asked the federal government to nationalize health care, and won second place awards for Video in 2023 and 2024.
I graduated from Wichita State University in 2019 then taught public speaking for two years as a graduate teaching assistant. I worked to learn multiple mediums with radio, print, digital and television experiences during my time there and interned for KMUW and KWCH 12 in Wichita. I freelanced for the Wichita Eagle, Kansas Leadership Center Magazine and then a magazine in Sierra Leone among others. I also worked for The Sunflower covering Wichita State for about five years in multiple positions.
In 2019, I was awarded a Mandela Washington Fellowship and Exchange by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. For 26 months I led a project to bring a women’s media and leadership conference to Freetown, Sierra Leone. I traveled to Sierra Leone in November of 2021 to host the conference and completed the fellowship in January 2022.
I was the founder and co-chair of the Women's Communication & Leadership Conference. I hope to return with more journalists someday for another professional exchange.
Before my professional start in Wichita I spent many years in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Much of that time was spent battling chronic Lyme disease which kept me ill for 13 years.
Former KU, Columbia and Wichita State student, reporter and instructor. Proud Alum of Northfield Mount Hermon School.
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