• 20+ years as a professional journalist, including 6 years as an editor with the daily newspaper Tri-City Herald, 14+ years as reporter, editor, and/or publisher of weekly and monthly publications, and currently a columnist for the Herald and  editor/publisher of the bilingual, 20,000-circulation Migrant Education News, under contract with the state’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

• 7 years as Communications Specialist/Marketing Director with two top engineering/architectural firms. Besides handling public relations and external and internal communications, he prepared contract and grant proposals. Out of nearly 400 proposals, he successfully secured about 20% of the contracts/grants in a highly competitive environment.

• 15+ years as a college instructor, full- or part-time, including developer of training program for hundreds of laid-off Hanford workers, and head of junior college journalism program that won more top awards than such four-year schools as Gonzaga University and Boise State University in direct competition. He taught courses in mass media in society, news writing, in-depth reporting, editing, publishing, and desktop publishing (PageMaker, QuarkXpress and Ventura). He advised the top junior college newspaper in the Northwest, also honored as top paper among all colleges and universities in the Inland Northwest (including Washington State U., Eastern Washington U., Gonzaga U., Whitworth College, Boise State U., and U. of Montana). He prepared junior college students who also reaped many individual awards in competition with the other schools' upper classmen and graduate students, including the top general news writing award three of the five years, settling for second place the other two years. He also organized and supervised regional journalism workshops and internships. Many of Ken's students went on to successful professional communication careers with no additional journalism training.

• As author of numerous journal articles on education reform and three books, including a multimedia textbook to be used in this course. The textbook includes a set of taped speeches and interviews with professional communicators. The tapes are used both for content and as instructional aids for course exercises.