_Thom Clark
Thom Clark is president of the Community Media Workshop. During his 35 years as an editor, photojournalist and social enterprise entrepreneur in Chicago’s nonprofit sector, Clark has developed affordable housing; co-founded and directed the Chicago Rehab Network; served as editor of award-winning monthly, The Neighborhood Works published by the Center for Neighborhood Technology; and labored as a newsletter editor and photojournalist before co-founding the Workshop in 1989.
Since then he has trained thousands of grassroots leaders and nonprofit executives to tell their stories more effectively, in Chicago and across the country. Recent communications consults include Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Michigan Land Use Network, North Suburban Library System, Axelson Center @ North Park College, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, South West Organizing Project, LISC-Chicago, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Chapin Hall, and Advocate Charitable Foundation, amongst others. Among his honors and awards he was recently named one of Business and Professional People’s “40 Who’ve Made a Difference” and he received a Studs Terkel Community Media Award from the Workshop for his journalistic leadership. In 2009 he co-authored The NEW news: Journalism We Want & Need for the Chicago Community Trust.
Thom teaches in the graduate journalism program at Columbia College Chicago where the Workshop is based and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists/Chicago Headline Club, the Publicity Club of Chicago, the Black Public Relations Society, the Illinois Education Association, United for Peace, and the St. Nicholas Church Peace & Justice Committee.
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