Leah Fabel
Leah Fabel grew up in St. Paul, Minn., and graduated in 2000 from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. She then moved to Chicago where she taught history at Paul Robeson High School through the Teach for America program. After a brief stint back in her hometown, she moved to Amman, Jordan, for a year before beginning graduate school at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She will graduate from Medill in December, 2007, with a reporting and writing concentration. While in Chicago, she has freelanced for the Chicago Tribune's metromix.com and its free daily, Red Eye. While in Amman, she worked as co-editor of Luxury Magazine. She has also freelanced for The Rake in Minneapolis. Throughout graduate school, she has written for Medill Reports, a Chicago-area news service. Over the course of the News21 fellowship, Leah focused on the intersection of faith and public education.
