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Central Texas Leadership Series: Jill McCall

(Kateleigh Mills/KWBU Radio)
Jill McCall (left) and Nan Holmes (right) in the KWBU Studio on March 13, 2019.

Central Texas Leadership Series host Nan Holmes speaks with Jill McCall, the executive director of Compassion Ministries. The nonprofit works to reintegrate homeless families or families on the verge of homelessness, with children,  into permanent housing and employment. The organization also provides a variety of services to the families like counseling, job training and search, drug and alchohol treatment and daycare. 

 

Kateleigh joined KWBU in January 2019. She is an Oklahoma native that is making the move to Waco after working as an All Things Considered host and producer at affiliate KOSU Radio in Oklahoma City. She is a former NPR Next Generation Radio Fellow, a Society of Professional Journalists award winner, an Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame recipient for ‘Outstanding Promise in Journalism’ and the Oklahoma Collegiate Media Association’s 2017 recipient for ‘College Newspaper Journalist of the Year.’ After finishing up her journalism degree early she decided to use her first year out of college to make the transition from print media to public radio. She is very excited to have joined KWBU and she is looking forward to all the opportunities it will bring - including providing quality journalism to all Texans.