An inside look at a candidate

Joellen Easton
Partners Manager
Public Insight Network

Rosemount, MN students from the PIN shared their experience with U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Bills as a teacher. They all told MPR News that Bills is friendly, funny and accessible, and has a knack for making a dense subject understandable. More at mpr.org.

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Joellen Easton Partners Manager
Public Insight Network

Joellen Easton builds partnerships with newsrooms, grows the source base, leads collaboration, innovates around the toolset, embeds empathy in PIN technology and newsrooms, and spreads the gospel.

As partners manager she leads our training and support team. This means she ensures that partner journalists learn best practices and deploy PIN effectively, recruits and brings on new news organizations, represents users in the PIN tools development process, leads evaluation efforts, and develops academic partnerships and course modules.

Her background is in anthropology, and she has produced for WGBH, PRI's The World, and freelance. She first worked with PIN at Marketplace as a PIN analyst for four years. She is degreed from Tufts and MIT.