A long-time journalism teacher at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington and a frequent content partner with WUKY, has won a national award for diversity.
Media Arts teacher Wendy Turner and some of her students just returned from San Francisco where she received the national 2023 Diversity Award from the Journalism Education Association (JEA).
Turner, the advisor of PLD Lamplighter for nearly 20 years, was hailed for fostering a sense of belonging at Dunbar. Under her leadership the journalism program now produces their daily newscasts in English and Spanish.
Turner says she hopes to use the award to start to a high school chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
