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Ellen Kingsley, Founder, Editor, and Publisher of ADDitude
Magazine, is
an award-winning journalist with 25 years of experience as a reporter,
editor, and documentary producer. As the mother of an AD/HD child, she
was concerned about the lack of practical, positive, user-friendly
information available to parents raising AD/HD children. She decided to
start ADDitude Magazine in
1998.
Kingsley, who had been a correspondent for the CBS television
station in
Washington
, D.C., won over 50 top
journalism awards for her coverage of medical, environmental, and
consumer issues, including six Emmy Awards, five National Press Club
Consumer Journalism Awards, and the James E. Scripps Award for
Distinguished Journalism. In 1999 she applied for and received a
prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant, which enabled her to launch ADDitude
on the Web.
A graduate of
Sarah
Lawrence
College
and
New York
University
’s graduate program in
journalism, Kingsley has appeared on behalf of ADDitude
on the Oprah Winfrey Show,
CBS News, David
Gergen’s The World At Large
on PBS, and in many other venues. She has also become a forceful
advocate for people with AD/HD, serving on committees and participating
in forums for the
American
Academy
of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, The National Mental Health Association, and other national
organizations.
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