PWC School Board Chair-At-Large Candidates' Forum Webinar

September 11, 2023, 7:00 - 8:30 PM

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School Board Chair-At-Large Candidates' Forum Webinar

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MEDIA COVERAGE OF FORUM

Article in InsideNOVA HERE

Article in Potomac Local News HERE

Article in Prince William Times  HERE


Candidates:

Caroline M. "Carrie" Rist – (R endorsed), *Babur B. Lateef (D endorsed- Incumbent), Kimberly B. Mehlman-Orozco (Independent- not endorsed)

Pictures and campaign info below

Moderator - Jill Palermo, Managing Editor of Prince William Times 

(corrected spelling of last name)

Co- Moderator - Scott Elliott, Publisher, Prince William Times

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/                                          Bios below

Format ~ Zoom Webinar

Link to view Webinar is in Constant Contact Email [below]

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Latest Constant Contact email  with corrected webpage link

Jill Palermo"s last name is misspelled - so sorry Jill!

Candidate  Info from candidates' websites and Moderator biographies

Babur B. Lateef, M.D.

Chairman-at-Large


Campaign email: 

lateef4pwc@gmail.com   


Campaign website:

https://www.chairlateef.com/  


Biography 


Caroline M. "Carrie" Rist



Campaign website:

https://carrie4chair.com/ 

Campaign Email: info@carrie4chair.com 

Biography

Kim Mehlman-Orozco, PhD.

Business website: https://mehlmanorozco.com/


Campaign website:

https://kimforchair.com/ 


Campaign Email: 

orozcoforchair@gmail.com 


Biography is on Business website

Jill Palermo,  

Moderator


Managing Editor, 

Prince William Times

jpalermo@fauquier.com 


Jill Palermo is the managing editor of the Prince William Times. She has been a reporter and editor in Prince William County both in the early 1990s and from 2013 until the present. She also reported for daily newspapers in Illinois, California, Florida and North Carolina, covering education, crime and local government.

 

She and her husband Rick, a retired U.S. Marine, raised their three now-adult kids in Montclair, where they have lived since 2004.


The Prince William Times is a sister publication to the Fauquier Times, locally owned by Piedmont Media LLC.

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/ 


Scott Elliott, 

Co-Moderator

Publisher,  

Prince William Times

CEO Piedmont Media, LLC

selliott@fauquier.com  


Scott Elliott is the publisher of the Prince Williams Times. He spent the bulk of his career as a journalist focused on writing about education policy. In 2013, he was the founding bureau chief for Chalkbeat Indiana, a local nonprofit education news site connected to a national network. 


He’s won numerous awards for his journalism, including the National Headliner Award for education reporting in 2005. He was president of the national Education Writers Association from 2013-17 and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2004-05.


Quote from LinkedIn page -

"What gets me up in the  morning is the desperate need to nurture quality, trustworthy, nonprofit journalism in more places quickly to fill growing information gaps caused by the decline of traditional news organizations ."