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 by Jared Fortek, InsideNOVA, September 12, 2023
Article in InsideNOVA HERE
Article by Uriah Kiser, Publisher of Potomac Local News (PLN), September 12, 2023
Article in Potomac Local News HERE
Article by Anya Sczerzenie , Prince William Times Staff Writer Sep 13, 2023
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
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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:
Campaign website:
Kim Mehlman-Orozco, PhD.
Business website: https://mehlmanorozco.com/
Campaign website:
Campaign Email:
Biography is on Business website
Jill Palermo,
Moderator
Managing Editor,
Prince William Times
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
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 ."