statement.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cHis creativity and hard work will help us in the essential task of inspiring the next generation of leaders.\u201d<\/p>\nAs executive director, effective March 31, Edwards will oversee the institute\u2019s programs and staff, secure grants and strengthen strategic partnerships in and outside of the university. He succeeds Darren Reisberg, who was named secretary of the university\u2019s board of trustees.<\/p>\n
Of his new role, Edwards said: \u201cI\u2019m excited by the opportunity to build on the tremendous momentum we\u2019ve established so far and I look forward to working with the team to offer programs that enrich our political discourse and inspire the next generation of political and public service leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is life after radio for Steve Edwards \u2014 and it keeps getting better. The former Chicago Public Media star, who hosted \u201cThe Afternoon Shift\u201d and \u201cEight Forty-Eight\u201d on WBEZ FM 91.5, has been named executive director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Edwards most recently was deputy director for programming at the... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}