Kalyn Belsha

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Kalyn covers education for The Beacon-News, a part of the Sun-Times Media Group based in Aurora, Ill. She previously covered courts and demographics for The Beaumont Enterprise in Texas. With the help of a 2011 award from the Chicago Community Trust, Belsha published an investigative series about a dual-language education initiative in Chicago Public Schools. She teaches an undergraduate journalism course at Loyola University Chicago and holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.