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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New York lawmakers are looking to allocate $100M for zero-emission school buses, as a state mandated deadline to begin purchasing them approaches, something many argue is not sustainable. -
Rochester City School District leadership recently announced plans to provide students with additional mental health supports in the next academic year. -
A renewed push to recruit more teachers of color in the Rochester City School District is focused within, and helping paraprofessionals and non-teaching staffers advance. -
A veteran organizer reflects on decades of civil rights work and why inclusive disaster planning is essential to protecting and empowering disabled communities. -
Many of the photographs in a family album tell a story that Cameron said has been erased from the conversation about the history of the disability rights movement in the U.S.: Black people also built this. -
Teen Empowerment's new hub in the Maplewood Historic District sits at the corner of an intersection that has seen fatal shootings in recent years — something the nonprofit is working to change. -
The game two truths and a lie might be something you’d come across at a college party. But local researchers are applying that playfulness to an AI study, and their findings are anything but a game. -
A professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf is rolling out an artificial intelligence tool to help bridge language learning gaps between American Sign Language and English. -
“I know the world isn’t great right now, but people with disabilities need to be appreciated more,” said Maggie McCrumb. -
Maggie McCrumb shares her journey of self-advocacy, overcoming workplace barriers, and finding independence with support services and job coaching.
