- Department:
- High School Journalism Institute
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
- Hometown:
- Bloomington, IN
Kathleen Mills received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University. She advises The Optimist at Bloomington High School South, where her students regularly win writing awards from Quill and Scroll. She is also a freelance writer and former daily newspaper reporter who has been published in The New York Times, Mademoiselle and The Indianapolis Star. Mills has received two Lilly Endowment Teacher Fellowships, won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Special Recognition Adviser award and was a participant in the New York Times Teaching Project.