Magazines
Maggie's first magazine article appeared in Madison Magazine in January 2007 and she has written monthly for Madison Magazine ever since. Her Madison Magazine cover stories and features have run the gamut from primate research and domestic violence to Best Places to Work and the governor's polarizing effect on Wisconsin, and she is the author of that magazine's only three 6,000-word features in three decades. By 2008 she'd also earned two International Regional Magazine awards for features in Wisconsin Trails magazine, and in 2009 she began working as a travel scout and writer for Midwest Living magazine. Her work has also appeared or is scheduled to appear in Delta Sky, Milwaukee Magazine, Grow magazine, Country Business Magazine, On Wisconsin magazine and Wisconsin Bride magazine. 		Newspapers
From 2006–2007 Maggie penned 2-3 features per week as a staff writer for the Mt. Horeb Mail newspaper, earning a 2007 Wisconsin Newspaper Association award for her profile on U.S.S. Indianapolis survivor Florian Stamm. In 2009 she began writing features for Isthmus, a Madison, Wisconsin alt-weekly print stronghold. Her Isthmus cover stories include profiles on Urban League president Kaleem Caire, child abuse agency Safe Harbor, cyberbullying in Dane County, Presbyterian minister Scott Anderson, HIV/AIDS activist Heidi Nass, the UW Center for Patient Partnerships, worker-owned cooperatives, and women's sexual health. 		Wisconsin
A full-time print journalist since early 2006, Maggie's work has appeared or is scheduled to appear in numerous Midwest and Wisconsin-based magazines and newspapers including Madison Magazine, Midwest Living magazine, Milwaukee Magazine, Isthmus, Wisconsin Trails, Wisconsin Bride, Grow magazine, and On Wisconsin. She is the co-author of a State Department of Commerce-commissioned coffee table book called Wisconsin: A Tradition of Innovation and serves as a Wisconsin travel scout for Midwest Living magazine. Her Wisconsin-centric profiles and features have landed her several awards, including two International Regional Magazine awards and a Wisconsin Newspaper Association award. She really does think there's no place like home. 		Archives Search
Advocacy/AbuseChildren/FamilyEducationFoodHealthIdeasPeoplePoliticsTravelWisconsin
Blog Index
The journal that this archive was targeting has been deleted. Please update your configuration.
Navigation

Entries in Lisa Peyton (1)

Thursday
Dec232010

Kaleem Caire: Change Agent

Kaleem Caire: Change Agent

Growing up in Madison, he couldn't wait to leave. He came back with a new goal: to transform it

Isthmus, 23 December 2010


Excerpt from original source:

It's 8 p.m. on South Park Street, just off the Beltline, and the November night is dark and cold. But from the inside of the slick new Center for Economic Development and Workforce Training, home to the Urban League of Greater Madison, it looks and feels much warmer.

The first-floor library is packed, with men sunk into plush armchairs with laptops and books and kids gathered near the fireplace. Kaleem Caire looks around, pleased.

"It's nice to go from having very little interest in this part of south Madison to now having this many people coming through here," says Caire, the Urban League's president and CEO. "They feel safe. I'm here at night until 1 or 2 a.m. sometimes."

Caire, 39, is a native of Madison's south side, though he spent the last decade in Washington, D.C. He returned in March 2010 to take the Urban League job, with some trepidation.

"I love Madison," he says, "but I didn't know if it was ready for a creative entrepreneurial leader, let alone a young African American leader."

When Caire first left Madison for the U.S. Navy after high school, he was a disillusioned and angry kid who did poorly in school. Over the last 10 years, he's served on two federal government panels and is at the forefront of efforts to combat racial disparities in his hometown.

That will take some doing.

Click to read more ...

Filed in under , , , , , , , ,