Alumni Feature - Ashley Bihun '19
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. recently gifted the Lewis University Radio/TV Department with a Sony MVS8000 high-definition switcher and five Sony HDC1500 studio cameras. The opportunity to work on this type of high-end technology fuels the transformational experience that a Lewis education provides to our students and helps prepare them for a successful career in broadcasting. Take Ashley Bihun ’19 for example… Ashley did radio in high school, but never imagined she could make a career out of it; that changed as she began to look at colleges and took a tour of Lewis. One of the stops on her tour was at the Radio/TV station with Associate Professor/Director of Television Operations John Kilpatrick. Afterwards, Ashley immediately felt excited and hopeful for her future. Ashley came to Lewis with an undeclared major – but that didn’t last very long. She enrolled in an Introduction to Radio course her freshman year which inspired her to take a leap of faith, follow her heart, and finall...