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Kateleigh Mills

Kateleigh Mills joined KOSU in March 2018, following her undergraduate degree completion from the University of Central Oklahoma in December 2017.

While studying journalism and professional media, she worked with the UCO’s journalism staff to reinvent the campus newspaper for a more multimedia purpose – joining with the campus radio and television stations for news updates and hosting public forums with campus groups.

The Edmond-raised reporter was editor-in- chief of her college newspaper when it won the Society of Professional Journalism award for Best Newspaper in Category B. Mills also received the Oklahoma Press Association Award for ‘Outstanding Promise in Journalism’ at the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame event in 2017.

She is very excited to have joined KOSU in Oklahoma City to provide news to all Oklahoma residents.

Election Day 2020 Live Blog: Bice Wins, State Questions Fail & Republican Supermajority Grows

By & • Nov 3, 2020

Updated 12:37 a.m.

A record number of Oklahomans voted this year. More than 1.5 million Oklahomans cast ballots during the 2020 general election, beating 2016's number of about 1.4 million. Oklahoma also saw about an 175% increase in mail and absentee voting compared to 2016.

Oklahoma Teenagers Want Their Voices Heard To Make The World ‘A Better Place’

By & Robby Korth • Oct 30, 2020
Students talk during a forum hosted by Oklahoma Engaged and Generation Citizen.
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Most Oklahoma high schoolers can’t vote and that isn’t lost on them.

But, they all want to have a bigger influence on the 2020 election, which they feel will have an outsized influence on their future.

Two Oklahoma Voters Discuss The Impacts Of Being Unemployed During The Pandemic

By • Oct 28, 2020
Allie Tabberer and her family
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Many Americans across the nation were unexpectedly laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kateleigh Mills with Oklahoma Engaged reached out to Oklahomans who lost their jobs as the virus spread to learn how that impacted their decision to vote.

Two Oklahoma Voters Discuss Masking And Voting During Pandemic

By & Oklahoma Engaged • Oct 14, 2020
A customer and worker wear masks at Aspen Coffee Company in Stillwater, Okla.

Health experts have repeatedly recommended the use of face coverings, to go along with social distancing and other guidelines meant to stunt the spread of COVID-19. But those measures have become politicized. Kateleigh Mills with Oklahoma Engaged talked with two Oklahoma voters about how masking and voting in the age of the coronavirus have impacted them.

Bice Advances, Bynum Wins Again, Oklahoma County Will Elect First Black Sheriff

By & • Aug 25, 2020

State Senator Stephanie Bice advances to face Congresswoman Kendra Horn, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum avoids predicted runoff, three incumbent state Senators lose and Oklahoma County will have its first Black sheriff.

Oklahoma Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion, Decide Legislative Races

By , , & • Jun 30, 2020

Oklahoma becomes the 37th state to expand Medicaid, Stephanie Bice and Terry Neese advance to Congressional District 5 Republican runoff, and more than half of Oklahoma legislative races are now decided.