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| Jessica Feldman, BA'54, was the first to support Journalism Experiences with a gift. |
Feldman grew up in Goshen, Ind., where she was editor of her junior and senior high school newspapers. She said that when her first choice of college, Northwestern University, did not pan out, “I chose Indiana and have always been very pleased with that choice.”
Feldman worked at the Chicago Tribune as an editorial research assistant before moving to an advertising agency.
After many years spent raising a family and volunteering, including producing newsletters for several public schools and co-editing a 1960s edition of This is Evanston for the League of Women Voters, Feldman returned to school, earning a Masters of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Returning home, she went to work for the City of Chicago, retiring in 2002 as the managing deputy commissioner of the Department of Environment.
