Suzanne Hanney is IPWA's 2007 Communicator of Achievement. She is editor of Chicago’s StreetWise, sold by people who are or were homeless, after working Downstate, including a stint as “Ronald Reagan editor” in his boyhood hometown.

Suzanne graduated from Northwestern University’s journalism school, then edited a weekly newspaper in Marseilles, which she briefly published.

Next, she was lifestyle editor of the daily Dixon Evening Telegraph. Then she interviewed Reagan’s contemporaries, compiled archives for a special edition and consulted with global media. She later served as assistant news editor, editor of a new weekly paper, then as a copyeditor at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa. In Chicago, she freelanced for The American Banker and United Press International.

NFPW and its affiliates are a dynamic nationwide organization of professional women and men pursuing careers across the communications spectrum. Its members work in print and electronic journalism, public relations, advertising, freelancing, graphic design, new media, marketing, photography, book publishing, education, government and more. The organization is dedicated to professional excellence and the highest ethical standards in the communications field, and to the rights and responsibilities of the First Amendment. For more information about IWPA, call the Illinois Woman's Press Association Hotline, 312/458-9151, e-mail iwpa@comcast.net or visit the IWPA Web site, www.iwpa.org. Contact NFPW at 800-780-2715, presswomen@aol.com or www.nfpw.org.