Judges

In addition to winning prizes, Hip History contest winners will have a chance to get their work in front of our contest judges, as well as interview them! We hope students will find this opportunity as exciting as the prizes.

We’re excited to share the fantastic folks who have agreed to be contest judges again this year. Check them out below. We’ll be adding more judges in the next few weeks so sign up for our newsletter and check back often.

A reminder: The judges’ views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Uniting Through History.

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The Hip History Scholarship Contest is funded in part by a grant from the Legacy Foundation, which partners to improve the health, education, and vitality of the City of Ottumwa and Wapello County.

Charity Nebbe, IPR Talk of Iowa host

Charity Nebbe

Charity Nebbe became the host of Talk of Iowa on Iowa Public Radio in 2010. It was a homecoming for her as she moved back to her native state.

She began her career in public radio at WOI Radio in Ames, Iowa when she was a student at Iowa State University and has been working in public radio ever since. Early in her career she created Chinwag Theater, a nationally syndicated public radio show that she produced and co-hosted with well-known author Daniel Pinkwater. She spent ten years as a host and producer at Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor.

In addition to her award winning radio work Charity is also the host of Iowa Ingredient on Iowa Public Television and the author of the children’s book “Our Walk in the Woods,” published in 2008. Charity is co-founder of Let Me Run Eastern Iowa Corridor, a character development and running program for boys. In 2020, Charity turned her love of reading into Talk of Iowa Book Club, where she interviews authors and encourages readers to discuss books on the official Facebook page.

Click here to read Uniting Through History’s blog post and learn more about Charity.