Chris Kromm
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Chris Kromm is the executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies and the publisher of Southern Exposure. Chris joined the staff of the institute in May 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he was the editor of Southern Exposure. Since becoming executive director of the institute in 2000, the institute and Southern Exposure have been recognized with an array of honors and awards, including a 2003 Defenders of Justice Award for policy research and advocacy, the prestigious George Polk Award for magazine reporting, and honors from the National Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists, and the White House Correspondents' Association.
Kromm frequently appears on local and national TV and radio broadcast stations for his perspectives on Southern issues, and his writings on politics and economics in the South have appeared in dozens of publications, including the Raleigh News and Observer, The Nation, Southern Exposure, and North Carolina'sIndependent Weekly. He is the author or co-author of several institute reports, including "The State of Voting," "Politics," "Ballot Box Justice," and "Gold and Green."
Kromm has worked in the South for 13 years as a journalist, non-profit program director, and organizer. Before joining the institute, Chris was an organizer with the North Carolina Student Rural Health Coalition, working for health care justice in majority-African American communities in eastern North Carolina. From 1992 to 1994, Kromm was communications director for the Student Environmental Action Coalition, the largest student environmental group in the country, and editor of SEAC's monthly magazine, Threshold.
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