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Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Public Relations Consultant
Location Arlington, Virginia, United States
Introduction Karen Bate has more than 20 years experience in nonprofit and corporate public relations, marketing and journalism, as a team leader, publications manager, writer/editor, media liaison, special events planner, photographer, news anchor and reporter. She uses these outstanding communications skills to help clients tell their stories, increase membership/sales, gain support for their missions and inspire others to share their passion for making a difference.
Interests Reading, writing, exercize, photography, religion and politics, alternative health care; travel, discussing the world with family and friends
Favorite Movies Recent favorite: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Juno; Shakespeare in Love; The Princess Bride; Crash; The Man Who Would Be King; Camelot (and most corny musicials); In America; Princess Caribou; Love, Actually; Bridget Jones' Diary; Pride and Prejudice (A & E version, and its modern stepchild, Clueless). Also Iraq for Sale; Press for Truth, Loose Change and other 9-11 truth movies; Healing Cancer, Eating, Food Matters.
Favorite Music Current favorite songs: Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show and Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks. Soundtracks to Shakespeare in Love, Love Actually, Camelot, RENT (and most corny movie musicals); Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin; Stray Light Run; Dashboard Confessional; Snow Patrol; Bonnie Raitt; Counting Crows; all the old stuff: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dylan, etc. Favorite musician: Bono for his devotion to ending extreme poverty around the world.
Favorite Books To Kill a Mockingbird; Gone With the Wind; The Wind in the Willows; all Jane Austen; all Dickens; The Secret Garden and A Little Princess; Anne of Green Gables; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Once and Future King; Eat, Pray Love. Mountains Beyond Mountains; Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian; The Freethinkers; The End of Faith; Our Fathers; Constantine's Sword; and American Catholic; The Omnivore's Dilemma; The Small Mart Revolution.