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Karen Young My name is Karen Young. My major passions in life are politics, media, music, art, and communications. I am optimistic and future-oriented by nature, and I never doubt that change is possible. I am also systems-oriented, with a keen interest in policy, strategic planning, management, and organizational development.

My background includes work in politics, media, and research.

From 2002 through 2006, I was active in the Illinois Green Party. I served the Party in a number of roles, including running for statewide office as Secretary of State in 2006, receiving 4% of the vote (141,000 votes). Our 2006 statewide campaign garnered more than 10% of the vote for our gubernatorial candidate, Rich Whitney (about 350,000 votes), on a budget of approximately $30,000. We also achieved positive news coverage in many major media outlets, as well as alternative media outlets, throughout the state.

I also served as a member of the North Side (Chicago) and Chicago Area Greens, state Coordinating Committee, Media Coordinator, chair of the Website and Strategic Planning committees, and a delegate to the national Green Party (GPUS).

I was also the co-founder of Media Democracy Chicago (MDC), which advocated media diversity and responsibility to the public interest. I was a major organizer for the Midwest Public Forum on Media Ownership, one of the “unofficial” FCC hearings on media ownership deregulation, in 2003 (see story in the American Journalism Review here) We worked closely with other grassroots media activist groups around the country, as well as local community groups, in the successful effort to stop the FCC from further deregulating media ownership, as well as around other media issues such as local TV news.

Previously, I spent many years in commercial music radio, working in both the creative and business sectors as a DJ, program director, marketing director, salesperson, and sales manager on both the local and national level. I worked mostly in rock, but also in Top 40.

I was fortunate to work at several truly great radio stations and companies, including WBAB-FM/Long Island, NY, WKTI-FM/Milwaukee, Interep, and Arbitron Ratings. I volunteered for several years at WBAI-FM/New York, and I have also taught and developed curricula in the Radio department at Columbia College Chicago.

I have served on the Board of Directors for The Conclave, a radio programming conference in Minneapolis, as well as for Roadworks Productions, a Chicago theater company.

I have worked extensively in survey research for Arbitron and Troy Research, an online research company.

I grew up in the Midwest, receiving a fine education at public schools including Madison West High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I majored in communication arts. I have lived in various cities in the Bay Area, Wisconsin and Illinois, including 13 years in Chicago. Currently I live in New York City and work as a strategic campaign researcher at the Writers Guild of America, East.

 

Email me at cheerfulreasons@yahoo.com.

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