Margie Nicholson - AEMM Media Management Advisor / Lecturer

Biography

Margie Nicholson is a tenured faculty member in the Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department at Columbia College Chicago. As an independent consultant and founder of Public Service Media & Marketing, she managed the program of support for media centers at the MacArthur Foundation for nearly ten years, served on grant review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Opportunities Program, and organized conferences on nonprofit communications and leadership with the Donors Forum of Chicago, Executive Service Corps, and Community TV Network.

Margie Nicholson was instrumental in the launch of Chicago's cable access channels, CAN-TV Network, while serving as that organization's vice president and chief operating officer. She has served as a board member and chair of the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers and is currently a board member of the International Leadership Association and chair of that organization?s global conference, Leadership at the Crossroads, which will be held in Chicago in November 2006. She has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Educator

Courses Taught:
Seminar: AEMM
Intro to Management

Experience

• M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University
• M.A. and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contact

Office: (312) 369-8665
Fax: (312) 369-8063
Email: mnicholson@colum.edu