Just Say “Yes” to Media Interviews

Kalish Communications Media Training will teach participants how to:

• Give effective interviews to TV, radio, and print reporters
• Take apprehension away and make every interview a success
• Develop easy to communicate messages
• Not be misquoted
• Get your key messages into every interview
• Handle both tough interviews and sensitive issues
• Dress, sit, stand, and gesture for maximum effectiveness
• Manage unsettling interview tactics
• Clarify responses on “hot” topics, and
• Avoid “off the record” and “no comment”

About the Presenter:  Karen Kalish
Karen Kalish is a serial social entrepreneur focused on literacy, closing the academic, opportunity, and achievement gaps in the nation’s schools, and ending all forms of discrimination, especially racial. She is the founder of three nonprofits and one program: Operation Understanding DC in Washington, D.C. and Cultural Leadership, HOME WORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program, and Books and Badges in St. Louis. 
Karen lived in Washington, D.C. for 27 years, Chicago for five years, and Cambridge, Massachusetts for two years. She taught school for six years in Washington, D.C. before becoming the consumer and investigative TV reporter for CBS-TV there. In 1978 she had the same beat for ABC-TV in Chicago, and then was the Washington, D.C. reporter/producer for Entertainment Tonight. In 1987, she started Kalish Communications to teach clients how to talk to the media without putting their feet in their mouths and how to write and give dynamic, interesting speeches and presentations. She has served on the boards of directors of many nonprofits from the NAACP to the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center and has won many awards for her community service including a 2015 Purpose Prize Fellowship and the NCCJ Brotherhood and Sisterhood Award for 2017.
In Washington in 1993 she started:

• Operation Understanding DC – a year-long leadership program for Black and Jewish high school students that teaches them about their own and each other’s race, religion, culture, and history. It is in its 26^th year.

In 2001 Karen returned to St. Louis (after being gone for 34 years), where she works on education transformation and establishing a level playing field for the minority community, especially African Americans. The programs she has started are:

• HOME WORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program 
• Books and Badges 
• Cultural Leadership 
• Millipore Sigma (formerly Sigma Aldrich) Reading Partners 

Karen received an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2000.
Karen is the author of How to Give a Terrific Presentation, Dealing Effectively with the Media, and I’ll See You On The Radio.