Journalist, author and radio-television personality Patt Morrison has been named as the Marymount College commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2013.
Patt Morrison, who pens the weekly "Patt Morrison Asks" column, is a writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where her work has spanned topics from national politics and the fall of the Berlin Wall to the O.J. Simpson case, the Gulf War, and Britain's royal family. She has a share in two of the Los Angeles Times' Pulitzer Prizes, for writing about the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. At the paper, she's also served as a book reviewer, and as a contributing editor for Los Angeles Times Magazine.
In her television work, she has won six Emmys and four Golden Mike awards as founding host and later as commentator on "Life & Times," the news and current affairs program on KCET-TV.
She was also host and consulting producer on the nationally syndicated weekly "The Book Show with Patt Morrison," and for almost 10 years, her commentaries were heard nationally on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition."
As host of "Patt Morrison" on KPCC radio, she won six more Golden Mike awards, three of them for Best Public Affairs radio show. She was on the cover of "Talkers" magazine, the national magazine for radio talk show hosts, and was ranked in the magazine's "Heavy Hundred" top radio hosts, the first local public radio host to be ranked. She created the award-winning and hugely popular political humor show "Comedy Congress" which airs on KPCC. Read more about Patt Morrison.
