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Rickey Bevington
Bevington has hosted live audience fireside chats with figures including former US President Jimmy Carter, former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark and World Cup-winning coach Jill Ellis. She regularly moderates live, televised candidate debates for Congressional, Legislative and Mayoral elections.
Bevington's journalism has garnered honors including the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Southeast (EMMYS), the Society of Professional Journalists and Public Radio News Directors, Inc. Her 2017 TEDx talk is "The Future Of News Is In Our Hands."
In 2020, she was selected as one of 21 prestigious Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation. In 2015 and 2016, Georgia Trend Magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle named Bevington among the "40 Under 40" leaders making a positive impact in Georgia.
She holds a degree in Comparative Literature from Barnard College of Columbia University and she studied literature at the University of Strasbourg in France. Bevington serves on the board of the Atlanta Press Club and is a Trustee of the Georgia Council for International Visitors.