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.
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The Rochester Teachers Association is preparing a legal challenge against the city school district over ongoing payroll issues. -
The New York state Board of Regents, which oversees the state Education Department, is preparing its recommendations for State Aid to schools in the upcoming legislative session. -
Amid growing concerns over artificial intelligence chatbots a University of Rochester researcher is exploring how people develop relationships with AI – and how it compares to or might change how they relate to other people. -
Paycheck errors have affected hundreds of, if not more than a thousand, school employees for months ever since the district transitioned to a new human resources software system this summer, Oracle Fusion Program, on July 1. -
The Brighton Central School District is one of the latest local K-12 districts to roll out artificial intelligence tools for educators. -
Indigenous videogame designers highlighted their latest work at the Strong National Museum of Play’s recent Black Indigenous and People of Color Game Studies Conference. -
Game developers and scholars gathered at the Strong National Museum of Play over the weekend to explore Black Indigenous and People of Color game studies. -
The museum is turning to Sign-Speak, an emerging, locally developed artificial intelligence platform providing on-demand speech to sign, sign to text and speech to text interpretation. -
Colleges are preparing the next generation of teachers to manage artificial intelligence in the classroom, and at Nazareth University, that includes ways to use AI for teaching English to language learners. -
The city of Rochester is halting solar energy projects it had sought to pursue this year amid federal changes to renewable energy tax credits.
