How to Talk to the Media Without Putting Your Feet in Your Mouth

Karen Kalish is the author of How to Give a Terrific Presentation, Dealing Effectively with the Media and I’ll See You On The Radio. She taught school for six years in Washington, DC before becoming a reporter for CBS-TV there. She had the same beat for ABC-TV in Chicago and then was the Washington, DC reporter/producer for Entertainment Tonight. She founded Kalish Communications to teach clients how to talk to the media and how to create dynamic, interesting speeches and presentations.
She also manages nonprofit organizations. She has served on the board of many nonprofits from the NAACP to a Jewish Community Center and herself founded several nonprofit organizations. In 2001, Kalish returned to her native St. Louis, where she works on education transformation and establishing a level playing field for the minority community, especially African Americans.
While working in DC, Kalish established Operation Understanding DC, a leadership program for Black and Jewish high school students that teaches them about their own and each other’s race, religion, culture and history. In St. Louis she has founded these nonprofit programs:

• Home Works! This program trains, supports and pays teachers to go to the homes of their struggling students to get their families engaged in their children’s education.
• Books and Badges partners St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department recruits and other reading partners with St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS) elementary school students to improve reading and language skills.
• Cultural Leadership, a year-long educational leadership program for high school students to teach them about civil rights, social justice, and democracy, and how to be activists, advocates, and agents of change.

Don’t miss this instructive, inspiring teacher! Whether you give formal presentations or give media interviews, learn from a pro about putting your best foot forward (and not in your mouth).