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Kelly Burke, Associate Kelly Burke is a communications specialist with more than 30 years experience in several media: television, radio, journalism, speech and theater. Kelly worked as a major market TV news reporter at WEWS TV, Scripps Howard Broadcasting in Cleveland, WXYZ TV, ABC, in Detroit, and WRC TV, NBC, in Washington, DC during a broadcast career that spanned more than twenty years. For the past decade, he has served as a popular media coach and video producer. On his own and contracting with other communications companies, Kelly has conducted media and presentation skills training as well as specialized crisis communications training for such corporations as American Express, AOL/Netscape, AK Steel, Borland, Web Methods, Level Three, Elan, Capitol One, Clark Realt, Citadel, Chase Bank, JP Morgan, Proctor & Gamble, Fortis, Exxon, Weyerhaueser, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Duke Energy, Con Edison, Constellation Energy, El Paso Gas, MCI, OTG the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, Intergen, Sante Fe Railway and Geon. With a special interest in health and safety, Kelly has also worked closely with the CDC, NIH, the AMA, the AAP, Robert Wood Johnson, the Casey Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and numerous pharmaceutical companies. Other clients have included the AARP, Red Cross, National Geographic Society, the National Aquarium, the Carnegie Foundation, the University of Vermont, and America's Promise. In between consulting assignments, Kelly writes, directs, produces and serves as talent for various video projects. Clients have included PBS, NIH, American Academy of Pediatrics, NHTSA, the National Safe Kids Coalition, the Indian Health Service, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the March of Dimes, IBM, Martin Marietta, MCI, Next Inc., the American Plastics Council, and many others. He has won more than 30 local and national awards, including 11 Emmys, for his TV work. In 1997, Kelly served as Special Consultant to ATV, the Aruba Broadcasting Company, on the Island of Aruba in the Dutch Antilles. He helped establish a TV newsroom training all newsoom personnel and served as Station Manager. He also anchored and produced morning newscasts and specials for the Caribbean TV station. For nine years, Kelly worked as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program for Broadcast Journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He also developed and taught seminars for student reporters in Medill's Washington, DC program where he designed a one of a kind weekly seminar, coordinated with CNN, which trained the students in "Reporting Live." Finally, Kelly also serves as Founder and Executive Director of Reconcile, Inc., a non-profit communications company. Reconcile develops media projects specifically aimed at raising awareness of social problems and finding solutions. Reconcile has produced public service announcements and videos for the Rwandan Relief effort, HIV and AIDS prevention and various alcohol awareness and driver safety programs. |
