February 26: Hayleigh Colombo, Reporter, Indianapolis Business Journal
Hayleigh Colombo is a reporter for the Indianapolis Business Journal covering city affairs, including issues of poverty and inequality. She is also the treasurer of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Indiana chapter. Before IBJ, Colombo was a K-12 education reporter for non-profit news site Chalkbeat Indiana, where she primarily covered Indianapolis Public Schools. She also worked as a business and higher education reporter for the Lafayette Journal & Courier. She graduated from Butler University in 2012 with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science.
Hayleigh will speak about the work she’s done covering poverty and inequality in Indianapolis at IBJ through her series One City Worlds Apart, and the importance of widening the coverage at IBJ to include the voices of people who don’t have much power in the business community.
All are welcome at Rotary programs. The lunch buffet opens at Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center at 11:45 a.m. and the program runs 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. See you there!
