Dawn is Senior Editor at Block Club Chicago, a nonprofit, online outlet focusing on hyperlocal coverage. She spent almost 10 years at the Chicago Tribune, most recently as the higher education reporter and editor on the Metro desk. She wrote extensively on the financial impacts of the state budget crisis, enrollment trends and leadership changes at the state\u2019s public and private universities. Originally from Denver, she earned her master\u2019s in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor\u2019s in French from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. From the playful to the serious, Block Club always has an eye toward showing life in Chicago as Chicagoans experience it \u2014 stripped of any preconceptions or decontextualized narratives. As a result, our journalism empowers people to be engaged in their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4624,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Dawn","last_name":"Rhodes","title":"Senior Editor","organization":"Block Club Chicago","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":""},"event":[31],"class_list":["post-4623","ona_speaker","type-ona_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-ona21"],"yoast_head":"\n