- Actor Profile:
Deborah Russel, Manager of Outreach and Employee Services; Walgreens
Deborah Russel is part of the corporate team at Walgreens. She speaks
plainly about the companies goals of hiring 30% people with disabilites
for their distribution facility in Windsor Connecticut. Walgreens is
doing a wonderful thing but this facility is not a charity site:
Walgreens' other facility in South Carolina has 42% workers with
disabilites and has been profitable and highly productive. Walgreens
has the same goals for Connecticut, and is showing other large
corporations that hiring people with disabilities is good for the
bottom line.
Name: Faith Middleton
Profile:
Only two dozen interviewers in the world have ever twice received the "Pulitzer" of national broadcast journalism, The George Foster Peabody Award. WNPR interviewer Faith Middleton is one of them.
As a Peabody recipient, she joins the ranks of Ted Koppel, Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, Diane Sawyer, Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, Scott Simon and Susan Stamberg. And while Faith reports on traditional mainstream journalism subjects, she also has developed a specialty - reporting on the achievements of ordinary people. She finds original ways to show that the qualities of our humanity are often as compelling and popular as what is wrong. Faith has interviewed more than 7,000 people. Her trademark is the unusual and compelling questions she asks her guests, including Arthur Miller, Mary Martin, Anna Deveare Smith, Walter Cronkite, Annie Dillard, Colleen Dewhurst, James Earl Jones and Katharine Hepburn. But her interviews with the unknown have provoked the most attention.
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