Kakie Urch is an associate professor of multimedia in the School of Journalism and Media. In 16 years as a professional newspaper editor for Knight Ridder, Scripps and Gannett papers, she served as the editor of the Kentucky Enquirer of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Assistant Managing Editor of the Kentucky Post, Assistant Managing Editor of the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif. and Assistant City Editor of the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa. She is a founder of the UK student-run radio station, WRFL-FM and a founding board member and program director of the the RadioLEX lpfm stations serving the Black, LBGTQIA+ and Latino communities in Lexington. She worked in Hollywood on films including Terminator Salvation, Seven Pounds, The Comebacks, Soul Man and Spike Lee's Miracle at Santa Anna. She holds a B.A. in English, a B.A. in Journalism with an emphasis in Appalachian studies, a Master's in American literature with emphasis on working class, minority and mass publications and a certificate in Social Theory from University of Kentucky. She did doctoral work in Rhetoric and Composition at the Pennsylvania State University and did a multimedia fellowship at UC Berkeley. Her father fought the Nazis in the 7th Army, 63rd Division 254th Infantry I Company that broke through the Seigfried Line near Einsheim, Germany in February 1945.

 

 

Satchel Walton is a student journalist at duPont Manual High School in Louisville. He worked on a series of articles for the Manual RedEye about hatred in Kentucky law enforcement and is the cofounder of the Kentucky Green Report. He has had work published in Buzzfeed, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Kentucky Forward.