Margie Nicholson

Margie Nicholson is a faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches Inspired Leadership in the Senior Seminar Program and Culture, Race and Media in the Television Department. In fall 2005 she will join the College's Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department.

Her professional experience prior to teaching was in the field of independent and community media. She launched the community cable television channels in Chicago (CAN-TV), managed a grantmaking program for independent media centers at the MacArthur Foundation, and served on grant review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Commerce, and other grantmakers. She has worked as a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation, Benton Foundation, Retirement Research Foundation, and Executive Service Corps. In addition to her media and consulting activities, she has organized conferences on nonprofit leadership for the Executive Service Corps of Chicago and on strategic communications for nonprofits for the Donors Forum of Chicago and Community Media Workshop.

Margie Nicholson has served as a volunteer board member and chair of the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers (now the Alliance for Community Media) and as a board member of Literacy Chicago and ChildServ. She was recently elected to the board of the International Leadership Association and appointed as chair of ILA's 2006 conference in Chicago.

Professor Nicholson has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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