An award-winning journalist with more than a two decades of experience, Chris Green tells stories that matter.

The managing editor of The Journal, the Kansas Leadership Center’s print and digital magazine, Green helped plan, research, co-write and edit the publication’s nationally award-winning investigative report, “Running Out of Water, Running Out of Time,” in 2018. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded the story the Sigma Delta Chi Award in Local/Regional Public Service Journalism. The in-depth report also won the Burton W. Marvin Kansas News Enterprise Award from the University of Kansas’ School of Journalism and the William Allen White Foundation.

Green also oversaw The Journal’s collaboration in 2020 with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Building upon reader tips shared by ProPublica, the magazine revealed through an extensive investigation how thousands of patients visiting a Kansas City-area hospital were being sued for medical debt, with dozens even going to jail because of it. The piece quickly became the most-read article in the history of the publication and attracted the attention of policymakers.

Under Green’s leadership, The Journal also became a member of the Wichita Journalism Collaborative and a regular contributor to the Solutions Journalism Network.

Green also hosts The Journal’s virtual and in-person live discussion events and edits the magazine’s weekly email newsletter. In 2021, he participated in an experimental data-driven storytelling project to increase accessibility of civic information to the blind and visually impaired.

Prior to his work at the Kansas Leadership Center, Green was an investigative reporter for The Hutchinson News and a Statehouse correspondent for the Harris News Service in Topeka.

From 2009 through 2012, he helped nonprofit organizations tell factual narratives for educational purposes. This work included developing in-depth case studies about real-life civic leadership challenges facing Kansas communities and became an expert in facilitation and experiential leadership teaching methods.

He received an undergraduate degree in Mass Communication from Baker University and has a master’s degree in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2014, he received an executive certificate from Harvard University’s Kennedy School for participating the in the Art and Practice of Leadership Development.

Chris Green

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