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ANUW members, come join us for a talk from Susan Mango Curtis

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Susan Mango Curtis is an award-winning visual journalist leader, with expertise in strategic planning, product management in digital and print. With a academic appointment as associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, teaching visual journalism and graphic design, specializing immersive storytelling. She’s a committed educator whose courses provide students with the ability to create and develop visual responses to communication problems. She has been a champion of visual thinking throughout her teaching experience and spearheads the effort to bring visual thinking into all Medill’s courses. Enthusiastically seeing the potential for news delivery, she was an early adapter of digital publishing on mobile tablets. A former president of Society of News Design, she was the driving force behind development of the first SND Design Code of Ethics, used by visual journalist around the world. Her career path includes assistant managing editor for the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, where she redesign the in newspaper 1991, and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for a series titled "The Question of Color." In1996 she received the Garth C. Reeve chair in journalism, leaving the newsroom for short sabbatical to teach visual journalism at Florida A&M University. Curtis has an extensive career in journalism, Journal newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C., Washington Post Sunday magazine and the National Rifle Association. She operates a design consulting business that caters to publications and organizations both in the United States and abroad, and frequently lectures on design for various universities, newspaper societies and an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists Visual Task Force.