Location: Chicago, cook, Illinois, U.S. Outlying Islands
Beauty Turner lived in the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the
nation's most infamous public housing high-rise for sixteen years . She once worked for RJ now
serves as Assistant Editor,
South Street Journal
writing award-winning investigative
articles and commentaries and co-directing the Advocacy and Outreach Initiative. Beauty
is a well-known community activist as well as a regular columnist for the Hyde Park
Herald and other community newspapers. For the last several years, Beauty has worked
as a research assistant for Professor Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist at Columbia
University.
Beauty is now a National award winning Journalist recognized by her peers with the First
New America Award of it kind by the National Society of Professional Journalists, also a
Winner of a Studs Terkel, Peter Lisagor, Associated Press award, Chicago Association for
Black Journalist award, Courageous voice award for her activism, Black Pearl award,
Woman of the Century award, and a Shero award from the Empowerment Zone
Committee. Turner has been feature on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Tribune
(773)297-5619 Beautyturner@gmail.com
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