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Kathryn Grace Nelson
Kathryn Nelson is a freelance journalist who frequently writes about African issues, international relations and development, human rights, conflict and genocide. She is currently based in Minneapolis, MN. While completing her undergraduate degree in global studies with minors in journalism and Spanish, she worked as an intern, reporter, editor and columnist at the Minnesota Daily, and as a student reporter and freelance writer at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune newspaper. Kathryn also interned at Amnesty International U.S.A.'s media department, covering the Supreme Court case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, regarding detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, as well as developing and implementing educational curriculum for the organization's youth program.
She also composed press releases, organizational statements and letters to the editor to be published in the Washington Post newspaper.To expand her technical writing skills, she joined the University of Minnesotas Center for Transportation Studies editorial staff writing material for various newsletters and publications.In 2007, she moved to Bungoma, Kenya to work at a Red Cross refugee camp, and subsequently co-founded an organization in a nearby village. Kathryn currently directs all development, fundraising and media outreach programs for the charity.Kathryn believes her purpose as a writer is to bear witness to the injustices of the world and hopes to become an international war correspondent in the future.
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• Freelance journalist - Minneapolis, M.N. Dec. 2008 - Present Client directed writing for non-profit organizations, companies, advertising agencies, public relations firms, websites, newspapers and magazines. Clients include: The Star Tribune, Semester at Sea, Learning Dreams, Live Citizen.com and the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation. • Learning Dreams - Minneapolis, M.N. September 2009 Jan. 2011 Program coordinator: Responsible for the management of programs associated with the educational non-profit including providing logistical assistance to the director and media support for the entire organization. • The Center for Transportation Studies - Minneapolis, M.N. Jan. 2008 - Feb. 2009 Publications intern: drafting transportation newsletters, editing documents and photographing events. • The Minnesota Daily (20,000 daily circulation) - Minneapolis, M.N. Aug. 2006 - Jan. 2008 • Projects editor: managing two reporters and two interns, participating in daily planning and design of newspaper. • Columnist: writing weekly column on international humanitarian issues. • International/national reporter: writing five articles every two weeks. • Projects reporter: writing text, photo and graphic heavy articles. • The Star Tribune (322,362 daily, 534,750 Sunday circulation) - Minneapolis, M.N. Jan. 2008 - May 2008 University of Minnesota student reporter: writing articles for Minneapolis desk. Several prominent article placements including newspaper front page and local section front page. • Amnesty International - Washington, D.C. May 2006 - Aug. 2006 • Media relations intern: collecting data from judicial hearings at the Supreme Court. Writing and editing documents including press releases, magazine articles and activist materials. Providing research on human rights for media directors.
• The Nafula Foundation - Bungoma, Kenya / Minneapolis, M.N. June 2007 - Present Founder and president: leading a non-profit organization that works with vulnerable families and orphaned children in Western Kenya. • Kenyan Red Cross - Mt. Elgon, Kenya June 2007 - Aug. 2007 Emergency services: providing humanitarian assistance in internally displaced persons camp and compiling information and photographs for the Kenyan Red Cross newsletter. • Amnesty International - Minneapolis, M.N. Sept. 2004 - Aug. 2006 Leadership positions as a Youth Activist Kollege attendee, Minnesota Student Area Coordinator, University of Minnesota Student Group Coordinator and Minnehaha Academy Student Group Coordinator.
• National Diversity Award from the Associated Collegiate Press 2008. • Mark of Excellence Award for Online Opinion from the Society for Profesional Journalists and Commentary 2007. • Mark of Excellence Award for Breaking News from the Society for Profesional Journalists 2007.
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Gospel of Soccer
Holiday E-Readers
Wacipi
Semester at Sea
Care packed in a pillow case
Hotel Rwanda
Tapping a keg for a good cause
Anoka mans Olympian trek
Tales of Anoka County
New theater
Public Enemies
Workforce in high demand
Strikes a cord
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Kathryn Grace NelsonTel: + 1 952 220 1903Twitter: urbaninkslingerSkype: urbaninkslingerWebsite: www.urbaninkslinger.comEmail: kathryn_urbaninkslinger.com
