Lucy Kragness

University of Minnesota Duluth Experience:

3/96 to present: Chief of Staff to the Chancellor

1/09 to present: Instructor, Journalism 3300: News Photography, a three-credit journalism course

1/05 to present: Instructor, Journalism 2001: Reporting and Editing I, a three-credit journalism course

10/90 to 3/96: Alumni Director, University Relations

8/90 to 10/90: Acting Director, Alumni and Media Relations

11/84 to 10/90: Publications Director, Alumni and Media Relations

3/89 to 5/94: Taught Publications Editing, a three-credit spring quarter journalism course

6/85 to 6/90: Volunteer editorial adviser, Statesman student newspaper

Freelance Experience:

7/86 to present: Freelance writer, photographer for several regional and national publications

List of Published Freelance articles, photographs:

Lake Superior Magazine

Superior Golf, July 1991

Italian Families Create Superior Cuisine: Mi Casa, Casa de Roma, and one photograph, February-March 1991

Welcoming a Superior Winter: Downhill Skiing, December-January 1991

Snowmobiling Revisited: Lake Superior Beckons with Thousands of Miles of Trails December-January 1990

The Few, The Proud -- The Handlers: Volunteering for the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon can be Habit-forming, and two photographs, November-December 1987

Higher Education in Duluth-Superior, September-October 1987

Whitewater Rafting on the St. Louis River, two photographs, July-July August 1986

Weight Watchers Magazine
- Sledding Toward Slim, and one photograph, December 1987

Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Kayaking photograph, July 1987

Duluth News-Tribune
- Several business articles for Outlook special sections on economic development published in the springs of 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992

Children's Magic Window Magazine
- Reaching the Top: Mountain-climbing Sisters, May/June 1987
- Wyoming: The Cowboy State, and two photographs, January/February 1987

Minnesota Explorer, newspaper for the Minnesota Office of Tourism
- Novices Can Explore Lake Superior by Kayak, Spring 1991
- Excursion Trains Keep Railroad Heritage Alive, Spring 1991

Minnesota Times newspaper
- Blustery campaign blows through Duluth, November 1987
- Some notes from the North Shore,² December 1987/January 1988

Weight Watchers New You newspaper
- Lifetime Member Competes in Sled Dog Marathon, and two photographs, March-April 1987

The New North Times journal of northeastern Minnesota public affairs
- Northeastern Minnesota Women Work to End Domestic Violence, Winter 1990 Feature photograph, Winter 1989
- Business photograph, Summer 1988

The Duluthian, Duluth Chamber of Commerce magazine
- Making Things Clear, September-October 1988
- The Horses Wear Hats, July-August 1988
- For the Kid in Everyone, November-December 1987
- Making a Point, September-October 1987

5/86 to 9/87: Owned, operated Action Photos, a business that involved photographing and selling prints to whitewater rafters, kayakers on the St. Louis River

Newspaper Experience:

9/83 to 9/84: One-person bureau in Sheridan, Wyo., for the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont.

3/81 to 9/83: Assistant state editor at the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont.

3/80 to 3/81: Managing editor of the Williston Daily Herald, Plains Reporter (weekly) and the Williston Basin Reporter (bi-weekly), all in Williston, N.D.

11/79 to 3/80: Assistant managing editor/Sunday editor at the Williston Daily Herald

6/79 to 11/79: Reporter, business editor at the Williston Daily Herald

11/78 to 6/79: Assistant editor at the Northeaster newspaper in Minneapolis.

Education:

Master of Education in Educational Computing and Technology, University of Minesota Duluth, 2001.

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, 1979.

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