STEVE NOVAK

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MARCUS RILEY

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BARBARA WILLIAMS PERRY

A veteran of 35 years in television news in Chicago and President of the Chicago Chapter of NATAS, Ms. Williams-Perry joined WMAQ-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Chicago in 1976.  As part of the NewsCenter 5 team, she worked as a general assignment reporter, covering stories ranging from the death of Mayor Richard J. Daley to the first running of the Chicago Marathon. During that time, she broke the story that Center for Disease Control researchers had found the cause of Legionnaire’s Disease, a bacterial infection that broke out during a convention of the American Legion. 

In 1979, Williams-Perry joined WTTW-TV, Chicago’s PBS station.  She produced an hour-long program profiling Sandra Day O’Conner, the first woman to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice and went on to produce the weekly program, “Chicago Week in Review,” and worked as a producer/correspondent on “Chicago Tonight.” 

In 1993, Williams-Perry began her free-lance work with Towers Productions.  She wrote and produced programs for “American Justice,” working with Bill Kurtis on the series.  Since 2005, Williams has served as President of the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, where she has established new scholarships and started a Silver Circle Awards ceremony in Milwaukee, WI.