Rhoda Lipton

Professor Lipton earned a B.A. and M.A. at New York University before obtaining an M.S. from Columbia. She has worked professionally as a show and series producer and writer for WBAL (Baltimore); an editorial producer, field producer, and writer for WNBC (New York); and a "World News Tonight" field producer, "20/20" segment producer, special events control room producer, coordinating producer and field producer for ABC News.

Lipton has held a Freedom Forum Fellowship and studied in Europe on a Knight International Press Fellowship to Central Europe and a Fulbright fellowship to the Slovak Republic.