Karen Green is RENCI’s director of communication and outreach. She manages all the institute’s internal and external communications, media relations, events and websites and oversees RENCI’s education and outreach activities. She spent eight years at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), first as public information officer and later as associate director of public affairs. She worked as a communications specialist with University of Illinois Extension and has been a communications consultant for technology businesses and nonprofit organizations. Before her career in public affairs management, Green was a newspaper feature writer and columnist. Her writing, editing and communications management efforts have won recognition from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Association of Women in Communication, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association.

Director, Communications & Outreach
kgreen at renci.org
919-445-9648
Profile

Area of expertise
Strategic communications, marketing and branding campaigns, public and media relations, editorial production, website development, writing and editing, media training, internal communications.

Responsibilities
Karen Green manages all the institute’s internal and external communications and media relations efforts. She is responsible for developing and maintaining the RENCI website and for providing information on RENCI projects and project successes to key audiences, including funding organizations, state legislators and agencies, the media and the general public.

Projects
RENCI Website
RENCI Distinguished Lecture Series
RENCI at Supercomputing

Background
Green became RENCI’s director of marketing and public relations in December 2005, after spending eight years at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Champaign, IL, as public information officer and associate director of public affairs. She worked as a communications specialist with University of Illinois College of Agrigulture Extension program for eight years and has been a communications consultant for numerous technology businesses and nonprofit organizations. She began her career as a newspaper feature writer and columnist. Green’s writing, editing and communications management efforts have won recognition from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Association of Women in Communications, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association. Green holds a master’s degree in communications from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor’s in journalism from Northern Illinois University.

Recent Awards
Ad Club of Champaign-Urbana, 2004 Awards:
–Special Gold Award (best use of scientific visuals in a publication)
–Silver Award (best copywriting, team effort)
Master Communicator Awards 2002:
–Awards of Excellence for
• Public Relations Brochure/Flier (NCSA Private Sector Program brochure)
• Public Relations Brochure/Flier (“The Next Wave”)
• Public Relations External Special Project (NSF PACI brochure)
–Award of Merit:
• Public Relations Brochure/Flier (ACB Grand Opening Brochure)
Master Communicator Awards 1998:
–Award of Excellence (Access Online Web Site)
–Award of Merit (Design–Access Online Web Site)
–Award of Achievement (Public Relations External Project — “It Takes an Alliance to Build a Grid”)

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