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Photos: Radio Faces Featuring NPR's Korva Coleman

WGLT | By Izzy Carroll

Published November 4, 2019 at 9:48 AM CST

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NPR's Korva Coleman was the special guest at Radio Faces 2019.

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WGLT general manager R.C. McBride with NPR's Korva Coleman and ISU President Larry Dietz.

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NPR's Korva Coleman with WGLT student reporters Tiffani Jackson and Darnysha Mitchell, as well as ISU President Larry Dietz and WGLT general manager R.C. McBride.

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Several members of the WGLT and WCBU staffs attended Radio Faces.

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Korva Coleman Scholars Tiffani Jackson, left, and Darnysha Mitchell from the WGLT student staff.

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Hundreds of WGLT's individual and corporate supporters attended Radio Faces on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in Uptown Normal.

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NPR's Korva Coleman was the special guest at Radio Faces 2019. Here she is with WGLT general manager R.C. McBride, who is helping her send a message back to fellow NPR newscaster Lakshmi Singh.

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Radio Faces attendees could grab a pair of WGLT socks as they left the event. Many already had their own.

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NPR's Korva Coleman with WGLT development director Melissa Libert, second from right, and Rob McDade from presenting sponsor COUNTRY Financial.

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Hundreds of WGLT's individual and corporate supporters attended Radio Faces on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in Uptown Normal.

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Hundreds of WGLT's individual and corporate supporters attended Radio Faces on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in Uptown Normal.

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McLean County public defender Carla Barnes with friends at Radio Faces.

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Korva Coleman Scholars Tiffani Jackson, left, and Darnysha Mitchell from the WGLT student staff.

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NPR's Korva Coleman was the special guest at Radio Faces 2019. Here she is with Korva Coleman Scholars Tiffani Jackson, left, and Darysha Mitchell from the WGLT student staff.

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NPR's Korva Coleman was the special guest at Radio Faces 2019.

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NPR's Korva Coleman was the special guest at Radio Faces 2019.

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WGLT Friends Council member Justin Boyd with WGLT reporter Mary Cullen at Radio Faces.

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WGLT development director Melissa Libert addresses the crowd at Radio Faces.

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Rob McDade, senior vice president of Property/Casualty at presenting sponsor COUNTRY Financial, spoke to the crowd at Radio Faces. McDade is former chair of the WGLT Friends Council.

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WGLT's 15th annual Radio Faces was one of the best ever, thanks to the insightful and entertaining remarks from our headliner, NPR's Korva Coleman.

Hundreds of WGLT's closest friends (including corporate supporters and individual contributors) joined us at the Marriott in Uptown Normal. Some of our favorite photos from the Oct. 18 event, presented by COUNTRY Financial, are in the gallery above.

Also recognized were WGLT student reporters Tiffani Jackson and Darnysha Mitchell, who were named the inaugural Korva Coleman Scholars. Coleman waived her speaker’s fee and instead asked Illinois State University to invest the money into scholarships for student journalists from underrepresented groups.

Many thanks to our table sponsors for 2019's Radio Faces: