Wendy Turner started teaching in Kentucky in 2001, but journalism has been a part of her life since middle school when she was selected to be a student contributor at the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle. In high school, she served as the school newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief, and she continued her studies at the Kentucky Kernel at the University of Kentucky during college. Before obtaining her Master’s in Secondary Education, she was a Bluegrass Communities reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader from 1997-2000. She has been the adviser of PLD Lamplighter at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, KY, since 2005, and was awarded James L. Highland Kentucky Journalism Teacher of the Year in 2014. A certified journalism educator with the Journalism Education Association, she now serves as a mentor for new journalism advisers.