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Affiliations: Executive Director of the Pacific News Service |
Education and Training:
About Dr. Close: SANDY CLOSE, executive director of the Bay
Area institute/ Pacific News Service, received a BA from the University of
California-Berkeley in 1964,then moved to Hong Kong where she worked as the
China editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Upon her return to the
U.S., she founded The Flatlands newspaper, a raw voice of the inner city
communities of Oakland, Ca. In 1974, she became executive director of the
Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service, helping to develop it into one of
the most diverse sources of literary voices and analytical ideas in the U.S.
news media. In 1991 she founded YOI (Youth Outlook), a collaboration of
writers and young people, and in 1996 she co-founded "The BeatWithin,"a
weekly newsletter of writing and art by incarcerated youth. In 1996 she also
found- ed New California Media, a network of over 150 ethnic news
organizations collaborating to produce a weekly TV show, an awards program,
and an inter-ethnic media exchange and Web site. |
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