Meet the News Team

Cheryl V. Walker has been a writer and public relations professional in higher education for more than three decades. On topics ranging from parent-teen relationships to voting behavior, she handles media relations for a range of academic and administrative departments, including the social sciences and admissions.

When Wake Forest was the first top-30 national university to drop the SAT/ACT requirement for undergraduate admissions, she coordinated the university’s media outreach regarding the test-optional decision. She has been a CASE and PRSA presenter and has collaborated with colleagues to win CASE awards, including a 2014 Award of Excellence. In 2000, she gained experience handling the public relations challenges of hosting a Presidential Debate.

Cheryl graduated from Wake Forest with a B.A. in English.

With nearly 25 years experience in public relations, targeted marketing, editing, writing, project management and content creation, Kim has spent her career cultivating and maintaining close and productive relationships as a communications professional. She has 18 years of higher education experience with Wake Forest.

Kim connects Wake Forest’s leadership and experts to trends in personal and career development, employment, mentoring, internships, economics, global issues, and arts and culture. She enjoys showcasing the role higher education plays in developing communities, workplaces and the world.

In addition, Kim manages social media @WakeForestNews and @InsideWFU.

Kim earned her B.A. in English from Loyola University in Maryland.

Keri Brown joined the news team in 2022 after working as a host and reporter for NPR-affiliate 88.5 WFDD for 11 years. As a journalist, Keri has covered a wide variety of topics and has received multiple awards for her feature and enterprise reporting.  Before moving to North Carolina, she worked with West Virginia Public Broadcasting and produced stories for the state’s public television and public radio programs. In this role, she also taught journalism courses at Wheeling University and Bethany College and produced STEM stories as part of a partnership with NASA funded education centers. She is a graduate of Ohio University where she earned her B.S. in Communication from the Scripps College of Communication.

Keri enjoys telling the stories of Wake Forest University and working with students, faculty and staff.