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K.C. Compton is an executive editor of Natural Home & Garden, GRIT and Capper’s magazines and editor in chief of The Herb Companion magazine. She has worked for several years as a newspaper reporter, columnist and editor in the Rocky Mountains and came to Kansas in 2001 as managing editor for a sister publication, Mother Earth News. GRIT and Capper’s are two of the country’s oldest publications (Grit since 1882 and Capper’s since 1879). Having sold GRIT as a kid growing up in rural Oklahoma, she is proud to have been the editor who oversaw its transition from struggling newspaper format to the full-color bimonthly magazine on the stands today. Her essays have been published in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and her freelance articles have been published in numerous magazines. K.C has taught workshops on writing, reporting and editing, bearing in mind her past experiences as a participant in such workshops over the years.
Owen Roberts is the director of research communications at the University of Guelph and is also an agri-food columnist for the Guelph Daily Mercury and other agri-food publications. Owen founded a program called Students Promoting Awareness of Research Knowledge (SPARK) this program has been introduced by 20 other Canadian universities. While SPARK receives much recognition, Owen was personally recognized by the Ontario Instituted of Agrologists and named an honorary professional agrologist.


Fred Myers began his ag journalism career 54 years ago when he graduated from Purdue with a degree in agriculture but without any journalism training or experience.
John Taylor has just about seen it all in his 28-year career that began as a journalist and has included extensive experience in both the corporate and agency worlds.
Christine, Vice President of New Media Marketing for JTMarCom, has worked in the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors, as well as run her own promotional merchandise firm. She is a master networker who is now helping our clients interact with their customers, develop new customers and strengthen their brands with incredibly powerful Social Media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Today it’s Twitter. What’s next? Christine helps JTMarCom clients stay on the leading edge of Social Media technology.
