It’s 2020 and We’re Growing

Charlie (left) and Allison (center) on assignment in Kosovo. The pair joined the Forever Ready team!

It’s 2020 and we’re adding more Duhawks to the team!

Loras College graduates Allison Wong ’17 and Charlie Grant ’17 will join Forever Ready Productions as part of our expansion beginning this month.

** This is where I explain that the Duhawk is the mascot for Loras College. It’s a hawk. The animal. The bird. Except you add a “du” to the beginning (for Dubuque, Iowa). That’s it. There’s no such thing as an actual Duhawk.**

In the last three years, the Forever Ready team has more than doubled, and our mission-focused work puts us in a prime position to welcome Charlie and Allison to the storytelling team. Their background in journalism, along with their understanding of social responsibility, only adds to our team’s unique work.

Allison, an on-air reporter, and Charlie, a videographer, both formerly worked for KCRG-TV9 News in Dubuque, where they covered natural disasters, a presidential visit, and local politics. Sidenote: KCRG is the first television station that Lauren worked at in high school and college.

Their work took them across Iowa, as they partnered together at the Dubuque headquarters of KCRG, a division of Gray Television, and to the other side of the globe. Together, they traveled to Kosovo in 2019, where they documented the Iowa National Guard's efforts to rebuild the country and its security force. Their work has been featured on ABC's World News Tonight.

The two will be based in Memphis while working to expand Forever Ready Productions’ services to the Midwest (more on that soon).

Welcome, Allison and Charlie!