About IWMF: Board of Directors

Veteran broadcast journalist Carole Simpson became leader-in-residence at Emerson College in January 2007. Simpson, a former ABC News anchor, teaches, mentors and leads community conversations at Emerson.

Simpson, who anchored ABC World News Tonight Sunday from 1988-2003, joined ABC News from NBC News in 1982. Prior to joining NBC News in 1974, she was an instructor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Simpson helped anchor ABC's coverage of events, including the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in South Africa, the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, the Tiananmen Square massacre and events surrounding the Oklahoma City bombing. Her reports have appeared on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline and numerous ABC Special Events programs. Simpson moderated the 1992 presidential debate; she was the first woman and first African American to do so.

A three-time Emmy award winner, Simpson has received numerous awards for her reporting on social issues, including two duPont-Columbia Awards and the Joseph Medill Distinguished Journalism Award from the Chicago Historical Society. The National Association of Black Journalists named her Journalist of the Year in 1992 and inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2005.

Simpson is a longtime supporter of the IWMF’s Carole Simpson Leadership Institute, which was founded in 1998 to train African women journalists in media leadership.

IWMF Live Chat with Carole Simpson (9/27/02)

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