SUSAN MANGO CURTIS KEEPS STACKING UP HER HONORS

 

Susan Mango Curtis, former BJ assistant managing editor, is going to need to enlarge her trophy room.

Saturday, August 27 she received the National Association of Black Journalists-Visual Task Force Legacy Award during the group’s convention auction.

Mango’s response:

“I am honored and humbled. It’s a blessing to have served as a member of such an creatively talented group of visual journalists.”

 

In 2020 Mango was named Black Journalists’ Education Journalist of the year.

In 2019 she received the Society for News Design’s  Lifetime Achievement Award.

Before leaving the BJ for in 1997 for become associate professor of visual arts at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University  Mango was involved in the “Question of Color” project that led to one of the 4 BJ Pulitzers (JSK got a 5^th). The late BJ State Desk editor Pat Engelhart graduated from Northwestern before his DeNobil days at the BJ.

Mango is a 1981 graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and a 1977 graduate of Great Mills High School in Lexington Park, Maryland.

Her career includes art director for the National Rifle Association, where she designed American Marksman magazine.

If you want to personally congratulate Mango her e-mail is mangocurtis@northwestern.edu  and her phone number is (847) 508-6057.