Turner, Dawn: - Dawn Turner is an award-winning journalist and novelist.
Turner Endowed Scholarship in Media at her alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign..
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In 2018, she established the Dawn M.
Turner is the author of two novels, Only Twice I\'ve Wished for Heaven and An Eighth of August.
In 2018, she served as a fellow and journalist-in-residence at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
She spent the 2014-2015 school year as a Nieman Journalism fellow at Harvard University.
Turner has been a regular commentator for several national and international news programs, and has reported from around the world in countries such as Australia, China, France, and Ghana.
She has covered national presidential conventions, as well as Barack Obama\'s 2008 presidential election and inauguration.
Turner, who served as a 2017 and 2018 juror for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary, has written commentary for The Washington Post , PBS NewsHour , CBS Sunday Morning News show, NPR\'s Morning Edition show, the Chicago Tonight show, and elsewhere.
A former columnist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune , Turner spent a decade and a half writing about race, politics, and people whose stories are often dismissed and ignored.
Turner, Dawn: - Dawn Turner is an award-winning journalist and novelist
