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Currently:
• Owner, PR Media Consultants®, a leading consulting
firm for public interest advocates, environmental and sustainable
agriculture groups, libraries, museums, universities, and First
Nations/Native Americans.
• Workshop leader. To date, Richards' "How
Media Really Work and How to Work the Media," "The Press
and You - How to Have a Healthy Relationship,"
writing, and editing workshops have reached over a thousand public
interest staff and board members from almost every state and province.
• Journalism teacher
• Writing and editing instructor
• Technical editor
• Freelance editor, researcher, and writer
• Information management consultant
• Professional musician
• Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Deerlodge Forest
Defense Fund
• Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Deerlodge Conservation
Coalition
• Member, Jefferson County Old Red Bridge Committee
• Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Southwest Montana
Wildlands Alliance
Community Experience:
• Member, Montana House of Representatives
• Member, Montana Advisory Council on Children and Youth
• Member, Montana Youth Justice Advisory Council
• Member, Montana Drug Education Consortium
• Member, Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration Committee
• State Director (first), Common Cause/Montana
• Founder, Montanans for Lobbyist Disclosure (successful initiative
group)
• Founder, Deerlodge Forest Defense Fund
• Co-founder, Deerlodge Conservation Coalition
• Co-founder, Southwest Montana Wildlands Alliance
• Founder, Americans for Wilderness Coalition
• Founding Member, Boulder Food Cooperative
• Founder, Highway 12 Committee
• Founder, West Helena Committee
• Founder, Committee to Save the Old High School
• Founder, Southern Cross/Georgetown Foundation
• Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Boulder Food Cooperative
• Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Beaverhead-Deerlodge
National Forests
• Board Member, Montana Wilderness Association
• Board Member, Clark Fork - Pend Oreille Coalition
• Land Use Planning Intern, Washington State Legislature
• Intern, Thurston (WA) Regional Planning Council
• Recipient, Montana Wilderness Association Brass Lantern
Award
• Recipient, Alliance for the Wild Rockies Outstanding Conservationist
Award
Professional Experience:
• Executive Producer, Big Sky Connection--Montana Radio News
Service
• Investigative Reporter, Institute on Money in State Politics
• Syndicated columnist, Montana Review, 12 newspapers
• Manager, Montana News Service, statewide news service for
weekly newspapers
• State Manager, The Associated Press/United Press International
Election Service - 1982, 1984
• State Manager, The Associated Press Election Service - 1986,
1988
• State Manager, News Election Service (AP, UPI, ABC, CBS,
CNN, NBC) – 1990
• Newsman, The Associated Press
• Stringer, United Press International
• Media Liaison, gubernatorial campaign - 1992 primary
• Media Liaison, congressional campaign - 1992 general
• Media Liaison, numerous legislative campaigns - 1974 to
present
• Media Liaison, numerous public interest campaigns - 1974
to present
• Host, Montana Review, television interview program
• Contributor, Left Bank: Writing and Fishing in the Northwest,
Blue Heron Publishing
• Editor, Paper Tiger, monthly newsmagazine
• Co-Editor, Borrowed Times, statewide biweekly newspaper
• Political editor, Montana Eagle, statewide weekly newspaper
• Co-author White Is, Grove Press, 1970
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