2015 Hellinger Award Winner- Emily Steves
Emily Steves made winning the Hellinger a family affair when she took home the honors in 2015; her brother Jordan was the 2009 recipient.
Steves, a Collins, New York native, was a cross-country runner as an undergraduate. She became the 10th St. Bonaventure student to be named a a Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholar, interned in the St. Bonaventure Office of Communications and worked in the Journalism/Mass Communication dean's office. Steves also created monthly newsletters for the First-Year Experience Program and was the vice president and chief designer for Kwerkworks, a student-run advertising agency.
She spent her last semester at St. Bonaventure setting up and managing the social media platforms for the university which included live-tweeting J-School events and producing the 2014 edition of The Communicator.
The Hellinger ceremony returned to the National Press Club in Washington, DC for the 2015 awards.