Sarah Turner (journalist)

Sarah Turner (journalist)
Sarah Grace Manski (Turner)

Sarah Manski (Turner)
Born November 14, 1978 (1978-11-14) (age 33)
Beloit, Wisconsin
Occupation CEO, Academic, Organizer, Speaker, Journalist
Spouse Benjamin Manski

Sarah Grace Manski (Turner) (born November 14, 1978) is an American journalist and media critic. An advocate of media democracy, and an American democracy movement. Manski emphasizes community-owned and independent media.

As a Pacifica radio reporter with WPFW-Washington DC, WIBA-NYC, KPFA-Berkeley, and WORT-Madison, Manski provided on-the-spot coverage of many anti-corporate protests, including the FTAA protests in Quebec City and Miami, the IMF protests in Washington DC, and the RNC and DNC national conventions in 2004. Her written work has been published in the Miami Herald, Washington Post, Wisconsin State Journal, Z Magazine, CounterPunch, and the Liberty Tree Journal. Manski worked as a producer of public radio's [Jean Feraca]'s "Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders."

Sarah Manski earned a master's degree in the Department of Life Sciences Communications at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Manski's research focused on building sustainable green businesses and communities. She founded www.PosiPair.com to grow the green economy and create the largest online source of green business information in the world.

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Youth

Sarah Manski was born in Beloit, Wisconsin on November 14, 1978 to Andy Turner and Cheryl Ann. Sarah lived most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin, with a few years in Fond du Lac and Beloit. She attended Janesville Parker High School, and graduated from Fond du Lac Goodrich in 1997.

Student Activism

Sarah Manski attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied psychology and sociology, and became a leader in campus labor activism. Manski was a prominent member of the Student and Labor Action Coalition, which won statewide legislation to alleviate the abuse of Limited Term Employees at UW-Madison. She was also a participant in the successful anti-sweatshop occupations of the chancellor's office at UW-Madison's Bascom Hall. Students forced the UW to end licensing agreements with apparel companies that used overseas sweatshop labor to manufacture campus wear. Manski was a weekly political columnist for one of the campus newspapers, the Daily Cardinal, and hosted a talk show for UW student radio station, WSUM. She covered the 2001 FTAA protests in Quebec City for the Wisconsin State Journal and Union Labor News.

Education

Education:

  • B.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2002.
  • Masters, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2008.

Early Career

After graduation, Manski remained involved in radical politics, working with the labor unions, IFPTE and AFSCME, and the anti-war group Code Pink. She went on to a career in journalism, covering social movement events for Free Speech Radio News, Worker Independent News, Democracy Now, as well as the Wisconsin State Journal, Isthmus, among others.

After a year as a graduate student and teaching assistant at George Washington University in D.C., and three years split between Washington D.C., Manhattan, and San Francisco, Manski returned to Wisconsin in the Autumn of 2005.

Career and political activities

Sarah Manski is the co-founder of the Wisconsin Wave. The Wisconsin Wave is the alliance of organizations fighting for democracy in Wisconsin and fighting against neoliberal pro-corporate austerity cuts to public services and employees.

Manski is also a Fellow with the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution. She spoke at the 2011 Left Forum in NYC.

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