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Nick Penniman is an independent media producer. He is the founder and director of the American News Project. Previously, he served as the Washington Director of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, the publisher of The Washington Monthly, the editor of TomPaine.com[1], program director of the Campaign for America's Future, associate editor of the American Prospect [2]magazine, director of the Alliance for Democracy and editor of the Lincoln Journal. He has served on multiple nonprofit boards, including the Homeless Empowerment Project and the Roosevelt Institution[3]. He graduated from St. Lawrence University [4]in 1992 with a degree in philosophy. While there, he was a member of the student senate and won the school's top prize for poetry writing. He grew up in St. Louis and currently lives in Silver Spring, MD, with his wife, Sarah Harding (the co-director of the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence[5]), and their two sons.
