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Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

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Areas of expertise:
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Housing and Neighborhoods in Chicago
  • School Funding

    Jeff Kelly Lowenstein started working as a staff reporter for The Chicago Reporter in January 2006 after writing for South Shore Community News on Chicago’s South Side for more than a year. His work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, the Daily Herald and The Common Review, among many other publications.

    In 2006 Kelly Lowenstein won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism for a six-part series he wrote about sex offenders in Chicago. He also was the 2007 Racial Justice Fellow at the Institute of Justice and Journalism at USC’s Annnenberg School of Communication and was a 1995 participant in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, during which time he spent a year teaching at the Uthongathi School in Tongaat, South Africa.

    He makes frequent speaking/media appearances, including:
  • WNUA 95.5 FM
  • CAN-TV
  • Truman College
  • National Louis University
  • Northwestern University

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