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lolly bowean
Staff Writer, Chicago Tribune

Location: Chicago, IL United States
Birthday: Jul 14th
Joined: Mar 24th, 2006
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Lolly Bowean is an award-winning journalist who currently writes about minority affairs, crime, development, youth and culture in Chicago for the Chicago Tribune.

Lolly spent much of her life in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, New York. But when she was in high school her family moved back south, first to Lenoir, North Carolina and then to Knoxville, Tennessee.

Lolly’s professional journalism career began as a freshman at Austin-East High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, when she submitted a freelance story to The Enlightener, a paper devoted to covering Knoxville’s African-American community. Though she was only 13-years-old, she became a stringer for the paper, regularly writing stories about issues and events in the community.

In 1994, Lolly earned an internship position at the Knoxville News-Sentinel. There she wrote about education, the environment and youth culture. She continued working at the city’s main daily paper for four years, through high school and her first year of college.

After completing high school, Bowean attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and graduated Magna Cum Laude. At Howard, she worked as editor of the Community News newspaper and was a member of the Annenberg Honor Society for students in the School of Communications.

She was the Washington Post’s first Howard Simons Fellow to the University of Maryland in 1999.

While in college, Lolly interned at the Boston Globe, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. She also had stories published in The Washington Post and produced work for National Public Radio.

In 2000, Lolly began working covering suburban communities of New Orleans for The Times-Picayune. She was honored with the first place Feature Writing Award from the Louisiana Press Association in 2002 for a story about a slave cemetery that was desecrated by the federal government when a levee was built on top of it.

She began working for the Chicago Tribune in 2004 and distinguished herself by covering the aftermath of Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita in New Orleans, writing about the last Tuskegee Airmen annual conference and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s efforts to attract new, younger members.

Lolly is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Association of Women’s Journalists.

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Howard University class of 1999
Undergrad Major: Journalism
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I currently work with Chicago Tribune as Staff Writer
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