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Lisa Chedekel ’82

Awards are rapidly accumulating for Lisa Chedekel ’82, after her series “Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight“ appeared in The Hartford Courant. Recipient of both a George Polk Award for military reporting and the Selden Ring Award for investigative journalism, the series focuses on the flaws in the U.S. military’s treatment of soldiers with mental illness. The series also was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. In a WESeminar on award-winning journalism during Reunion/Commencement 2007 moderated by editor and colleague Dan Haar ’81, Chedekel noted that the US military has, since her article appeared, increased its screening procedures in efforts to protect soldiers suffering mental health issues.
Awards are rapidly accumulating for Lisa Chedekel ’82, after her series “Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight“ appeared in The Hartford Courant. Recipient of both a George Polk Award for military reporting and the Selden Ring Award for investigative journalism, the series focuses on the flaws in the U.S. military’s treatment of soldiers with mental illness. The series also was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. In a WESeminar on award-winning journalism during Reunion/Commencement 2007 moderated by editor and colleague Dan Haar ’81, Chedekel noted that the US military has, since her article appeared, increased its screening procedures in efforts to protect soldiers suffering mental health issues.