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Lauri Lebo

January 01, 1970

Lauri Lebo is a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania State Education Association,[1] Secretary of the ACLU-Pennsylvania Board of Directors,[2] author, former radio station co-owner[3] and disc jockey,[4] and reporter from York County, Pennsylvania. Lebo was the principal local reporter covering Kitzmiller v. Dover in 2004 and 2005, and was featured prominently in the Nova documentary Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial both because of her coverage and because her father, Shiremanstown Mayor Dean Lebo, who co-owned Christian radio station WWII-AM (broadcasting to Harrisburg), sided with the Dover school board in the controversy.[5]

Lauri Lebo
Born(1964-03-18)March 18, 1964
Newberrytown, Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Teacher’s union spokeswoman, ACLU-PA BOD, Author, journalist
Notable credit(s)Coverage of Kitzmiller v. Dover
The Devil in Dover
Murder case in 1969 York race riot
SpouseJefferson Pepper
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/lauri.lebo.5

An award-winning journalist for over 20 years. Lebo helped to reopen murder cases from the 1969 York Race Riot,[6][7] She left reporting to write The Devil in Dover,[8] a book about the trial of the intelligent design movement and its effects on Dover.

Early life edit

Lauri was the oldest of Dean and Ann Lebo's five children. She attended Sunday school weekly and sang in the church choir. She believed the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, and Jesus’ sacrifice. Her mother taught her to enjoy life. Her father taught her about possibilities. As she grew older, she drifted away from the church.[9]

Her father's conversion to the Pentecostal faith began in 1987, when Lauri Lebo was about 23. Her father, who had taught her about the distance of the stars and whom she loved dearly, became “... a fundamentalist, speaking-in-tongues, slain-in-the-spirit, beware-the-mark-of-the-beast, faith-healing Christian...”)[10][11]

Lebo said her York County male elementary school classmates used to beat her up because of her “big mouth.”[11]

Inspired by her friend's journalist father, Ed Jensen, who included his daughter's friends in his “clever” news-related conversations, Lebo decided to become a journalist.[12]

When she was 15, her family evacuated[13] their home due to the Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown just across the Susquehanna River from Newberrytown, less than 5 miles from her home at the time.[14]

Journalism/Authorship career edit

Ed Jensen stayed in the area to report when Three Mile Island had its partial nuclear meltdown. When Jensen died three years later of cancer, Lebo “understood what it means to be a reporter," and she became one in 1985.[12]

In 2000, her first big story covered the 1969 York, PA race riot.[15] Based on a series of articles for the 30th anniversary of the riots by Lebo and others at the York Daily Record/Sunday news, the York County District Attorney and Deputy Prosecutor each reopened investigations.[7]

Journalism related to the Dover trial edit

In 2004, the York Daily Record assigned their Education Reporter, the then-Christian Lebo, to cover Kitzmiller v. Dover, which she called “the most amazing story I've ever covered in my life.”

Lebo sat through every day of testimony.[4] “As a reporter who doesn't come from a scientific background,” she was amazed daily that she was getting paid to “learn about evolution and the scientific method.”[13] The plaintiffs presented “The biology class you wish you could have taken”,[16] as Lebo quoted Margaret Talbot. “Every day we’d... learn something else incredible about... the fossil record, about the Avida program, which is a software program that actually shows evolution.”[5] Lebo had thought she could see the “hand of the Divine” when Intelligent Design was first described to her. She had been looking forward to hearing scientific arguments for the Christian god. Instead, she heard the primary scientist for the defense, biochemist Michael Behe, admit that astrology is as much a science as Intelligent Design is.[17]

During her December 2015 interview with Freedom From Religion’s Freethought Radio podcast, Lebo compared the pressure that Dover teachers felt to teach Creationism in biology class on the one hand, to the pressure she received from her employer to "write something nice" about Creationism on the other.[13] Although it relented after several months, the York Daily Record threatened Lebo with dismissal if she spoke at “Evolution 2006”, put on by the Stonybrook University Department of Ecology and Evolution. The York Daily Record also strongly opposed Lebo's request for time off to write her book on the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, claiming this would offend their conservative Christian readers. So Lebo quit her job as reporter and wrote The Devil in Dover.[8]

Afterwards, Lebo became a reporter for Religion Dispatches,[18] from which she announced, on 2011-07-10, her retirement to join the Pennsylvania State Education Association.[19]

Lebo was one of three panel judges for the 2016 Heywood Broun (journalism) Award.[20] In October 2016, Lebo was given the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Freethought Heroine Award in recognition of the special contributions of women to freethought and the battle to keep state and church separate.[21]

Journalism philosophy edit

Since the Dover trial, Ms. Lebo has subscribed to Walter Williams’ Journalist’s Creed, the words of which “remain one of the strongest summations of the guiding principles of our craft”[22] and the Walter Lippman philosophy of “objectivity of method”,[23] rather than the pretense that journalists have no opinions.[11] “If one side is a lie” and the reporter treats it as equal to the other side, that reporter performs a disservice.[8] She also asserted that media consolidation threatens a journalist's “depth and breadth of knowledge (of her/his sources and community) and does a disservice to democracy.”[24]

Journalism awards edit

  • Freedom From Religion 39th National Convention 2016 Freethought Heroine
  • Studs and Ida Terkel Fund prizewinner for The Devil in Dover (Initial prizewinner)
  • 27th Annual Schnaeder Print Media Awards (2006) 1st Place Beat Coverage: Daily Newspapers Under 49,000 Circ. for her coverage of intelligent design
  • To the York Daily Record and York Dispatch/Sunday News (Lebo reported for both, including articles on the York race riots) National Journalism Award for Public Service Reporting - Under 100,000 circulation for coverage of the York race riot.

Selected articles edit

  • Religion Dispatch articles, 15 pages of links[25]
  • The Scopes Strategy: Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti-Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools[26]
  • Unregulated Capitalism and Christian Fervor[27]
  • No News Is Bad News[28]
  • ‘Academic Freedom’ is Creationism[29]
  • Intelligent Design Propaganda Is Coming to a Theater Near You[30]
  • Was Guillermo Gonzalez “Expelled”? Intelligent Design and Tenure at Iowa State University[31]

Current career / Activism edit

Lauri Lebo has served as the Southern Region Advocacy Coordinator for the Pennsylvania State Education Association,[32] a chapter of the National Education Association. She has also served as a spokeswoman.[33]

Lebo is also the Secretary for the ACLU-PA Board of Directors.[34] She won the ACLU-PA 2012 Best published letter to the editor on a civil liberties-related issue (voter ID).[35]

Lebo is a scheduled speaker at the Freedom From Religion Foundation's 39th Annual Convention.[36]

References edit

  1. ^ "The Pennsylvania State Education Association". PSEA.org. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  2. ^ "Board of Directors". ACLUPA.org. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  3. ^ Lebo, Lauri (2009-03-24). The Devil in Dover. The New Press. p. 206.
  4. ^ a b "Intelligent Design on Trial". PBS.org. 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  5. ^ a b "Caught in a Culture War". PBS.org. 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  6. ^ "Lauri Lebo". The New Press. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  7. ^ a b "Riot Murders of 1969". IRE.org. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  8. ^ a b c Lauri Lebo - From Dover to DNA: How science-literate communities can change the narrative (speech) (video). Pennsylvania Nonbelievers. 2014-01-19. Retrieved 2016-09-07 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Lebo, Lauri (2009-03-24). The Devil in Dover. The New Press. pp. 105–106.
  10. ^ Lebo, Lauri (2009-03-24). The Devil in Dover. The New Press. p. 105.
  11. ^ a b c The Devil in Dover and elsewhere: the personal side of the Creationism controversy (speech). Year of Darwin (video). Case Western Reserve. 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2016-09-07 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ a b Lebo, Lauri (2009-03-24). The Devil in Dover. The New Press. Prologue.
  13. ^ a b c Author Lauri Lebo, The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America (interview) (podcast). Freethought Radio. 2009-02-09. 149. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  14. ^ Lebo lived close to Three Mile Island
  15. ^ "Biography: Lauri Lebo". Columbia University. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  16. ^ "Darwin in the Dock". The New Yorker. 2005-12-05. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  17. ^ "Afternoon Session" (PDF). National Center for Science Education. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  18. ^ "Lauri Lebo". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  19. ^ "A Short Goodbye". Religion Dispatches. 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  20. ^ "Terrence McCoy named 2016 Heywood Broun Award winner (Lauri Lebo was a judge)". Washington Post. 2016-07-27. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  21. ^ "Freethought Heroine Award". Freedom From Religion Foundation. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  22. ^ Lebo, Lauri (2009-03-24). The Devil in Dover. The New Press. p. 158.
  23. ^ "The lost meaning of 'objectivity'". American Press Institute. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  24. ^ "FCC Faces Public at Third Official Hearing on Media Consolidation". freepress. 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  25. ^ "Lauri Lebo". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  26. ^ "The Scopes Strategy: Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti-Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools". Scientific American. 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  27. ^ "Unregulated Capitalism and Christian Fervor". Progressive Christianity. 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  28. ^ "No News Is Bad News". Washington Spectator. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  29. ^ "'Academic Freedom' is Creationism". Sensuous Curmudgeon. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  30. ^ "Intelligent Design Propaganda Is Coming to a Theater Near You". Alternet.org. 2008-04-28. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  31. ^ "Was Guillermo Gonzalez "Expelled"?". The Skeptics Society. 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  32. ^ "PSEA Region Advocacy Coordinators". The Pennsylvania State Education Association. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  33. ^ "PSEA-NEA UniServ Representatives". The Pennsylvania State Education Association. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  34. ^ "Board of Directors". ACLU-PA. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  35. ^ "ACLU-PA Recognizes Chapters". ACLU-PA. 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  36. ^ "Freedom From Religion Foundation National Convention Speakers". Freedom From Religion Foundation. Retrieved 2016-09-08.

External links edit

  • Lauri Lebo YouTube Channel. Lauri Lebo. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  • "AMERICAN FALLOUT INDIE TWANG & ROOTS REVIEWS". American Fallout Records. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  • "Stories by Lauri Lebo (in Scientific American)". Scientific American. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  • "Lauri Lebo (Twitter account)". Lauri Lebo. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  • "Lying for God: The Dover Debacle". The Skeptics Society. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  • "Kitzmiller Trial Transcripts". National Center for Science Education. 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2016-09-07.

January 01, 1970
lauri, lebo, spokeswoman, pennsylvania, state, education, association, secretary, aclu, pennsylvania, board, directors, author, former, radio, station, owner, disc, jockey, reporter, from, york, county, pennsylvania, lebo, principal, local, reporter, covering,. Lauri Lebo is a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania State Education Association 1 Secretary of the ACLU Pennsylvania Board of Directors 2 author former radio station co owner 3 and disc jockey 4 and reporter from York County Pennsylvania Lebo was the principal local reporter covering Kitzmiller v Dover in 2004 and 2005 and was featured prominently in the Nova documentary Judgment Day Intelligent Design on Trial both because of her coverage and because her father Shiremanstown Mayor Dean Lebo who co owned Christian radio station WWII AM broadcasting to Harrisburg sided with the Dover school board in the controversy 5 Lauri LeboBorn 1964 03 18 March 18 1964Newberrytown PennsylvaniaOccupation s Teacher s union spokeswoman ACLU PA BOD Author journalistNotable credit s Coverage of Kitzmiller v DoverThe Devil in DoverMurder case in 1969 York race riotSpouseJefferson PepperWebsitehttps www facebook com lauri lebo 5 An award winning journalist for over 20 years Lebo helped to reopen murder cases from the 1969 York Race Riot 6 7 She left reporting to write The Devil in Dover 8 a book about the trial of the intelligent design movement and its effects on Dover Contents 1 Early life 2 Journalism Authorship career 2 1 Journalism related to the Dover trial 2 2 Journalism philosophy 2 3 Journalism awards 2 4 Selected articles 3 Current career Activism 4 References 5 External linksEarly life editLauri was the oldest of Dean and Ann Lebo s five children She attended Sunday school weekly and sang in the church choir She believed the stories of Adam and Eve Noah s Ark and Jesus sacrifice Her mother taught her to enjoy life Her father taught her about possibilities As she grew older she drifted away from the church 9 Her father s conversion to the Pentecostal faith began in 1987 when Lauri Lebo was about 23 Her father who had taught her about the distance of the stars and whom she loved dearly became a fundamentalist speaking in tongues slain in the spirit beware the mark of the beast faith healing Christian 10 11 Lebo said her York County male elementary school classmates used to beat her up because of her big mouth 11 Inspired by her friend s journalist father Ed Jensen who included his daughter s friends in his clever news related conversations Lebo decided to become a journalist 12 When she was 15 her family evacuated 13 their home due to the Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown just across the Susquehanna River from Newberrytown less than 5 miles from her home at the time 14 Journalism Authorship career editEd Jensen stayed in the area to report when Three Mile Island had its partial nuclear meltdown When Jensen died three years later of cancer Lebo understood what it means to be a reporter and she became one in 1985 12 In 2000 her first big story covered the 1969 York PA race riot 15 Based on a series of articles for the 30th anniversary of the riots by Lebo and others at the York Daily Record Sunday news the York County District Attorney and Deputy Prosecutor each reopened investigations 7 Journalism related to the Dover trial edit In 2004 the York Daily Record assigned their Education Reporter the then Christian Lebo to cover Kitzmiller v Dover which she called the most amazing story I ve ever covered in my life Lebo sat through every day of testimony 4 As a reporter who doesn t come from a scientific background she was amazed daily that she was getting paid to learn about evolution and the scientific method 13 The plaintiffs presented The biology class you wish you could have taken 16 as Lebo quoted Margaret Talbot Every day we d learn something else incredible about the fossil record about the Avida program which is a software program that actually shows evolution 5 Lebo had thought she could see the hand of the Divine when Intelligent Design was first described to her She had been looking forward to hearing scientific arguments for the Christian god Instead she heard the primary scientist for the defense biochemist Michael Behe admit that astrology is as much a science as Intelligent Design is 17 During her December 2015 interview with Freedom From Religion s Freethought Radio podcast Lebo compared the pressure that Dover teachers felt to teach Creationism in biology class on the one hand to the pressure she received from her employer to write something nice about Creationism on the other 13 Although it relented after several months the York Daily Record threatened Lebo with dismissal if she spoke at Evolution 2006 put on by the Stonybrook University Department of Ecology and Evolution The York Daily Record also strongly opposed Lebo s request for time off to write her book on the Kitzmiller v Dover trial claiming this would offend their conservative Christian readers So Lebo quit her job as reporter and wrote The Devil in Dover 8 Afterwards Lebo became a reporter for Religion Dispatches 18 from which she announced on 2011 07 10 her retirement to join the Pennsylvania State Education Association 19 Lebo was one of three panel judges for the 2016 Heywood Broun journalism Award 20 In October 2016 Lebo was given the Freedom From Religion Foundation s Freethought Heroine Award in recognition of the special contributions of women to freethought and the battle to keep state and church separate 21 Journalism philosophy edit Since the Dover trial Ms Lebo has subscribed to Walter Williams Journalist s Creed the words of which remain one of the strongest summations of the guiding principles of our craft 22 and the Walter Lippman philosophy of objectivity of method 23 rather than the pretense that journalists have no opinions 11 If one side is a lie and the reporter treats it as equal to the other side that reporter performs a disservice 8 She also asserted that media consolidation threatens a journalist s depth and breadth of knowledge of her his sources and community and does a disservice to democracy 24 Journalism awards edit Freedom From Religion 39th National Convention 2016 Freethought Heroine Studs and Ida Terkel Fund prizewinner for The Devil in Dover Initial prizewinner 27th Annual Schnaeder Print Media Awards 2006 1st Place Beat Coverage Daily Newspapers Under 49 000 Circ for her coverage of intelligent design To the York Daily Record and York Dispatch Sunday News Lebo reported for both including articles on the York race riots National Journalism Award for Public Service Reporting Under 100 000 circulation for coverage of the York race riot Selected articles edit Religion Dispatch articles 15 pages of links 25 The Scopes Strategy Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools 26 Unregulated Capitalism and Christian Fervor 27 No News Is Bad News 28 Academic Freedom is Creationism 29 Intelligent Design Propaganda Is Coming to a Theater Near You 30 Was Guillermo Gonzalez Expelled Intelligent Design and Tenure at Iowa State University 31 Current career Activism editLauri Lebo has served as the Southern Region Advocacy Coordinator for the Pennsylvania State Education Association 32 a chapter of the National Education Association She has also served as a spokeswoman 33 Lebo is also the Secretary for the ACLU PA Board of Directors 34 She won the ACLU PA 2012 Best published letter to the editor on a civil liberties related issue voter ID 35 Lebo is a scheduled speaker at the Freedom From Religion Foundation s 39th Annual Convention 36 References edit The Pennsylvania State Education Association PSEA org Retrieved 2016 09 07 Board of Directors ACLUPA org Retrieved 2016 09 07 Lebo Lauri 2009 03 24 The Devil in Dover The New Press p 206 a b Intelligent Design on Trial PBS org 2007 11 13 Retrieved 2016 09 04 a b Caught in a Culture War PBS org 2007 11 01 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Lauri Lebo The New Press Retrieved 2016 09 07 a b Riot Murders of 1969 IRE org Retrieved 2016 09 07 a b c Lauri Lebo From Dover to DNA How science literate communities can change the narrative speech video Pennsylvania Nonbelievers 2014 01 19 Retrieved 2016 09 07 via YouTube Lebo Lauri 2009 03 24 The Devil in Dover The New Press pp 105 106 Lebo Lauri 2009 03 24 The Devil in Dover The New Press p 105 a b c The Devil in Dover and elsewhere the personal side of the Creationism controversy speech Year of Darwin video Case Western Reserve 2008 12 02 Retrieved 2016 09 07 via YouTube a b Lebo Lauri 2009 03 24 The Devil in Dover The New Press Prologue a b c Author Lauri Lebo The Devil in Dover An Insider s Story of Dogma v Darwin in Small town America interview podcast Freethought Radio 2009 02 09 149 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Lebo lived close to Three Mile Island Biography Lauri Lebo Columbia University Retrieved 2016 09 07 Darwin in the Dock The New Yorker 2005 12 05 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Afternoon Session PDF National Center for Science Education Retrieved 2016 09 07 Lauri Lebo Religion Dispatches Retrieved 2016 09 07 A Short Goodbye Religion Dispatches 2011 07 10 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Terrence McCoy named 2016 Heywood Broun Award winner Lauri Lebo was a judge Washington Post 2016 07 27 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Freethought Heroine Award Freedom From Religion Foundation Retrieved 2017 05 13 Lebo Lauri 2009 03 24 The Devil in Dover The New Press p 158 The lost meaning of objectivity American Press Institute Retrieved 2016 09 07 FCC Faces Public at Third Official Hearing on Media Consolidation freepress 2007 02 21 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Lauri Lebo Religion Dispatches Retrieved 2016 09 08 The Scopes Strategy Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools Scientific American 2011 02 28 Retrieved 2016 09 08 Unregulated Capitalism and Christian Fervor Progressive Christianity 2009 10 13 Retrieved 2016 09 08 No News Is Bad News Washington Spectator Retrieved 2016 09 08 Academic Freedom is Creationism Sensuous Curmudgeon Retrieved 2016 09 08 Intelligent Design Propaganda Is Coming to a Theater Near You Alternet org 2008 04 28 Retrieved 2016 09 08 Was Guillermo Gonzalez Expelled The Skeptics Society 2008 04 23 Retrieved 2016 09 08 PSEA Region Advocacy Coordinators The Pennsylvania State Education Association Retrieved 2016 09 08 PSEA NEA UniServ Representatives The Pennsylvania State Education Association Retrieved 2016 09 08 Board of Directors ACLU PA Retrieved 2016 09 08 ACLU PA Recognizes Chapters ACLU PA 2012 12 14 Retrieved 2016 09 08 Freedom From Religion Foundation National Convention Speakers Freedom From Religion Foundation Retrieved 2016 09 08 External links editLauri Lebo YouTube Channel Lauri Lebo Retrieved 2016 09 08 AMERICAN FALLOUT INDIE TWANG amp ROOTS REVIEWS American Fallout Records Retrieved 2016 09 08 Stories by Lauri Lebo in Scientific American Scientific American Retrieved 2016 09 08 Lauri Lebo Twitter account Lauri Lebo Retrieved 2016 09 08 Lying for God The Dover Debacle The Skeptics Society Retrieved 2016 09 08 Kitzmiller Trial Transcripts National Center for Science Education 2008 10 17 Retrieved 2016 09 07 Retrieved from https en 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