Pepin (BS ’18, journalism) selected for Data Institute workshop hosted by Ida B. Wells Society and ProPublica
07/10/2019
Gwen Pepin, a 2018 journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been selected for the 2019 ProPublica Data Institute. Pepin is a workshop facilitator, reporter, and social media manager for the Westside Media Project, a Chicago-based nonprofit that teaches civic engagement, journalism, and digital media skills to inner-city youth of color. She started with WMP as a middle schooler who liked to write and was interested in her community.