By SDABJ Team
SDABJ is thrilled to announce Ann Simmons will be the keynote speaker at this year’s scholarship reception. Ms. Simmons is a reporter and multimedia journalist for the Los Angeles Times. She has served as a metro reporter and national and foreign correspondent. She was based in Russia for Time magazine, where she reported on the aborted coup against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the rise to power of Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the breakup of the USSR. As bureau chief in Kenya and South Africa for the Los Angeles Times, Simmons covered politics, business, human interest stories and civil strife in more than 30 African nations. She has also served assignments in Bosnia, Haiti and Iraq. Simmons was part of the team of LA Times reporters whose coverage of wildfires in Southern California won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2004. As a national reporter for the Times, she covered Hurricane Katrina and was subsequently based in New Orleans where she chronicled the city’s rebuilding. Simmons was born and raised in London, England. She holds double honors Bachelor of Arts degrees in Russian and Norwegian and a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School Journalism. She was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 2003.
The scholarship reception will be held on Friday, April 17th from 630pm-800pm at the National University Spectrum Center campus, 9388 Lightwave Ave, San Diego CA 92123. Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door.
