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MTV Channel Names Hickox Woman of the Year

Patty Wight
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MPBN

An MTV channel targeting college students has named nurse - and Maine resident - Kaci Hickox its 2014 woman of the year. The channel, called mtv-U, made the announcement today.
 

Hickox defied state-imposed quarantines after returning from West Africa, where she had treated Ebola patients. She said she was acting on behalf of all health care workers who returned from battling Ebola.

Hickox says she feels honored by this recognition. "It's definitely something that I didn't expect, and I just hope that we can continue, as a country, focusing on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and figuring out how to stop it," she says.

After the 21-day incubation period for the disease was over, Hickox and her boyfriend moved from Fort Kent to southern Maine.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.