Intownwriter

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Location

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Birthday

June 19

Title

Advocate

Bio

Marcia Killingsworth, IntownWriter I grew up as a clear-eyed idealist back in the Sixties in a small Southwest Georgia farming town. Happily, the world that my big sister, big brothers and the media brought to our living room — MAD magazine and Rocky & Bullwinkle, Vietnam and Birmingham, Dallas and Memphis, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, the Chad Mitchell Trio and The Beatles, The Four Tops and Miss Ross — formed the IntownWriter (for better or worse). I’ve spent 30+ years working in the Atlanta media community, including 25 years in the local PBS and NPR world. I now work as a freelance writer, editor and project manager. I write this blog, play on Facebook and am involved in a variety of neighborhood, political and community activities between gigs. I don’t take myself seriously, but there are institutions and ideals that I take very seriously: public radio and television, the survival of real local journalism, our criminal “justice” system, children’s rights and the future of Atlanta are just a few. I’m fed up with seeing important Atlanta institutions being dismantled or ruined by ignorance, hubris, narrow-mindedness and/or greed. One of my favorite quotes comes from Andrei Codrescu: “He who speaks the truth must keep his horse saddled.” I’ve had a few gallops in my time, and I look forward to many more.