Shannan Adler, hosts a political show on NH public television while serving as an adjunct professor of journalism, ethics and interactive media at Emerson College in Boston, where she teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes involving traditional and new media.

An experienced broadcast and print journalist with expertise in producing and overseeing international news-gathering, Shannan spent five years as a writer and producer for CNN and CNN International in Washington, D.C., where she shared in two Peabody awards for her contributions covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

A woman who left her job at CNN to make a difference in the lives of her students at Emerson College pursuing a similar dream. . To hear Women to Watch™ Media’s interview with Shannan and learn more about her amazing story, listen below.