Traci Purdum, an award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering manufacturing and management issues, is a graduate of the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent, Ohio, and an alumnus of the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Recent Awards:

2025 Eddie Award for her column "Lax Regulations Burn Rivers"

2024 Jesse H. Neal Award for best podcast Process Safety with Trish & Traci