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LISTEN: Another View Walks You Through How To Vote In Hampton Roads

Missy Cotter Smasal will face U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans to represent the 2nd Congressional District.
Photo from Missy Cotter Smasal Instagram
Missy Cotter Smasal will face U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans to represent the 2nd Congressional District.

From the Oct. 1, 2020 Another View Roundtable episode. 

Are you registered to vote? Do you have a plan for how you will vote? Are you confused about the absentee ballot procedure in Virginia? Do you know where to go for early voting in the Commonwealth? Join us for a guide to voting with step-by-step instruction on everything from registration to casting your vote. Our guests include Norfolk City Treasurer Daun Hester and Ms. Leelynn Brady, First VP with the League of Women Voters South Hampton Roads.

Another View is a weekly call-in radio talk show that discusses today's topics from an African American perspective. Hosted by Barbara Hamm Lee, the program airs every Thursday at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM. Barbara Hamm Lee is the Executive Producer and Host of Another View. She can be reached at Barbara.Hamm@whro.org.

Rebecca (Bec) Fedhaus Adams is the first ever news director at WHRO Public Media. She leads the strategic vision for local journalism. Bec is an alumna of the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media (2019) and a member of the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative (2020) from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. She is an outspoken advocate for diversity in public media and mentors young journalists to reach their goals. She is a member of the 2020 Next Generation Radio staff. Her work is driven by a conviction that the way we do our work is as important as the work we do, and that curiosity and humility are the cornerstones of that philosophy. She has served as an editor and project manager at WAMU in Washington, D.C., the talent director at the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), a general assignment reporter at WKMS, an education reporter at The Paducah Sun and a freelancer and consultant. Bec's stories and collaborations have won multiple state, regional and national awards including in the "Best Use of Sound," category for a story about an evangelical horse whisperer. She holds two degrees from Murray State University. A homesick Kentuckian, Bec has been named both a roller derby MVP and Miss Congeniality in past lives. She lives in Virginia Beach with her spouse, Drew. When she’s not at work, she enjoys karaoke, hosting dinner parties and traveling.