Noelle E. C. Evans
Education reporter/producerNoelle E. C. Evans is WXXI's Murrow Award-winning Education reporter/producer. She took on the role in 2022 after two-and-a-half years on general assignment.
In her tenure as Education reporter, Noelle has been awarded 2023 National and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Diversity Equity and Inclusion, a 2023 PMJA Award for News Feature, and a 2022 JANY Runner-up Award for Enterprise Reporting.
Her background in documentary filmmaking shapes her storytelling; her experience in education informs her on-the-ground human interest approach to news features.
Noelle's first newsroom position was in Quito, Ecuador, where she worked for a multi-national Latin American media organization. There she developed a nuanced understanding of the role of freedom of the press in democracy. She also sharpened her Spanish language skills (conversational, not yet fluent).
In 2016, Noelle was named a BBC Grace Wyndham Goldie scholar. While living in Cardiff, Wales, she worked with BBC Radio Wales and the BBC World Service. She received her master's degree in international journalism from Cardiff University, one of the top 10 ranking journalism schools in the U.K. Noelle was awarded the university’s USA Excellence Scholarship.
She freelances for NPR and BBC with a particular focus on Indigenous affairs and environment reporting. Her career began as an intern at WXXI in 2014 under the leadership of News Director Randy Gorbman.
Reach her at nevans@wxxi.org.
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The organization is partnering with Monroe County to offer a day of sensory-friendly DMV appointments away from the DMV offices this weekend. -
The Rochester Education Foundation and the Rochester Educational Opportunity Center are hosting a college financial aid application event called FAFSA Fest this week.
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School districts in the Rochester area and the rest of New York are in the midst of budget season, and many are grappling with how or whether to fund programs they started using federal pandemic relief dollars, which are now gone. -
The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County is looking for volunteers to become master gardeners.
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Local colleges are preparing students to enter a job market increasingly transformed by artificial intelligence. -
The United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes is offering $1.7 million in grant funding for nonprofits in the health care and human services sector.
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Sticking up for yourself is a life skill not often found in any curriculum, and there’s no one way to do it. Gillis’ has focused on education, architecture, and rethinking the definition of disability. -
A new Mary Cariola School for students with complex disabilities could locate in the northern portion of the former shopping mall. -
Northwest and Andrew Langston middle schools are located on the same campus, which helped make it possible. -
There is a saying that a person has two deaths: the first happens when they physically die, and the second takes place when they are no longer remembered. For those close to the late disability rights advocate Jensen Caraballo, his second death won’t happen in their lifetime.
