Welcome to the DETV Family Lauren Wilson & Pati Nash!
About Pati Nash: Born and raised in New York, Pati Nash attended NYU prior to working 14 years as a daily newspaper reporter in the New York and Chicago areas. In Delaware, she served as Public Information Officer for the Red Clay Consolidated School District, where she helped create and manage EDtv, the City of Wilmington’s educational television channel. She has two wonderful grown children who have flown the coop and work in environmental science. She has a cat with the unimpressive name of “Kitty.”
About Lauren: LAUREN R. WILSON is the spokesperson for the Colonial School District. As the district’s Public Information Officer, Ms. Wilson manages communications for the district’s 14 schools, writes a community newspaper, organizes and promotes media events, along with other related duties.In 1986 Wilson joined WPVI-TV/6ABC as a reporter for the Action News Wilmington, Delaware bureau where she worked for 24 years. Before this appointment, Ms. Wilson was a reporter, weathercaster, and substitute anchor at WHYY-TV 12, with three years of previous on-air experience as a reporter and anchor for ABC’s WMDT-TV, Salisbury, Maryland, and WILM News radio in Wilmington, Delaware. A graduate of Newark High School, Newark, Delaware Ms. Wilson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1979.Her numerous awards include 1985 Woman of the Year in Communications–National Association of Women; 1985 Achievement Award–Delaware Art Educators; 1983 Outstanding Young Woman of America Award; and United Press International 1981-82 Award for Outstanding Reporting in the Field of Education. She was also named “Best Reporter” in Delaware Today Magazine’s 1997 reader poll. Lauren was also voted “Best Reporter” in a 2006 Best of Delaware poll and received Wilmington’s 2010 Community Service Award from Mayor Jim Baker. Ms. Wilson is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the National Coalition of 100 Black Women; an associate member of Jack & Jill of America, Inc., Bethel AME Church located in Wilmington Delaware, and is active in the local community activities. She is also a former board member of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League and the Delaware Humanities Forum.
