Kim Clark (candidate)

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Kim Clark (born April 6, 1959) is a businessman and community leader who has lived with his partner David Fink in Three Oaks, Michigan for the last 12 years. Clark is an ordained minister, and adjunct professor of screenwriting and digital cinema at DePaul University in Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied psychology from Loyola University Chicago, and a diploma in Christian education from the Moody Bible Institute.

Clark has had extensive business experience in banking and marketing, serving as assistant vice president at Chicago Cosmopolitan Bank, executive vice president of TeleStudies, a consulting firm, and associate creative director at Young & Rubicam. Additionally, Clark has served as a partner in Lakeside Management, Inc.

Further, Clark is active in the performing arts and is an active writer, director and producer. He has written two plays, Binding Arbitration and Girl Talk, both of which have been produced. Clark was producer of the Emmy nominated television series Oh, Grow Up (1999), and executive producer of the film All Good Things (2002). He has served as the artistic director of the Chicago Center of the Performing Arts. Additionally for several years Clark headed the writing programs for The Second City comedy training program.

In 2000 Clark and his partner purchased the old Featherbone factory in Three Oaks, Michigan, which once produced corset stays, and renovated it to open the Acorn Theatre. Since that time Clark has acted as artistic director, and has worked to revitalize downtown Three Oaks. These efforts have helped Three Oaks to be designated part of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's "Cool Cities" initiative in Michigan.

[edit] 2006 election

On April 5, 2006, Clark announced his candidacy for Michigan's 6th congressional district, running as the Democratic challenger to Republican Congressman Fred Upton of St. Joseph, Michigan. Clark focused his campaign on improving education and jobs in southwest Michigan, as well as calling for a responsible withdrawal of troops from Iraq. In the general election, Clark lost to Upton, earning just 39 percent of the vote.