Mentor Monday: Connie Chung and Kyung B. Yoon

Behind every successful person, there’s a mentor who helped them along the way. Some of the most influential people in history were encouraged to succeed by some of the most well-known people of our time.

 To help celebrate MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership’s 25th Anniversary and 25 years of the youth mentoring movement, they have curated a list of 25 of the most meaningful mentoring relationships in history: 

The first woman to co-anchor CBS Evening News, and the second woman to anchor one of America's major network newscasts, Connie Chung was a mentor to Fox News reporter Kyung B. Yoon. In an interview on the significant role that mentors play in helping people achieve their professional goals, Yoon explained that she did not view television journalism as a practical career option growing up, but was inspired by Chung’s work later in life.

from Mentoring.org.