Profiles of Fellowship Winners
Scott Thomas Anderson
Part-Time Fellowship-2010
Project: "Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America"
Bio:
Scott is a journalist who has written for publications like The Sacramento News and Review, and Sierra Lodestar magazine. He's worked as a foreign correspondent for Radio Kerry in Tralee, Ireland, and he's been published in The Irish Independent, Dublin's largest daily newspaper. Scott is currently a crime reporter for the northern California newspaper, The Ledger Dispatch. In 2008, Scott won the California Newspaper Publishers Association's highest honor for Writing, followed by a second-place win for Investigative Journalism the following year. He has been interviewed about homicide investigations nationally on the Travel Channel, and internationally on Ireland's Radio 1: Drivetime. Scott received a B.A. in English studies from the University of California at Davis. In February, 2012, Anderson's Fellowship project was released as a book, "Shadow People: how meth-driven crime is eating at the heart of rural America."
Scott Thomas Anderson
Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarship Program
The Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarship Program recognizes outstanding young people who are promoting American values on college campuses.
