2010 AUS Distinguished Alumnus Announced

Dale Willman, M.A. Environment & Community ’01, is the recipient of the Antioch University Seattle Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2010 and will be honored both at AUS Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, June 19, at the Westin Hotel in Seattle and at a hosted gathering of alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends Friday, June 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Amore Restaurant, 2301 5th Avenue, just a block from AUS.

A national award-winning correspondent and editor for more than 35 years, Willman is a leading voice in environmental journalism who held various positions with National Public Radio, including being a news anchor and reporter during the first Gulf War. His work was included in NPR being awarded the DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. He also shared a Peabody Award for his work on the Lost and Found Series that was heard on the NPR program All Things Considered.

As a reporter for CBS, Willman covered the Clinton White House, the Pentagon and the State Department. While working for CNN, he won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting for his work documenting environmental hazards faced by musicians in the Broadway production of Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Willman, who lives in New York, is a frequent instructor in environmental journalism in the United States and other countries including Belize, Zambia, Thailand, Malawi, Croatia, Macedonia, Bolivia and Indonesia. He was recently awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow scholarship to teach environmental journalism and new media courses at Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia beginning in August 2010.

You may congratulate Willman at dale@fieldnotes.tv. If you would like to attend the hosted Amore event and talk with Willman, please RSVP to Eric Warn at ewarn@antioch.edu.