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Colleen Cason
Ventura County Community Foundation
ccason@vccf.org

Colleen Cason is an award-winning newspaper journalist who has worn hats as a writer, reporter, editor, columnist and multimedia content producer in her more than 30-year career.

She currently serves as communications and marketing director for the Ventura County Community Foundation.

For the past 14 years, she has written a general-interest column for the Ventura County Star, which helped her hone the craft of persuasive mass-media writing. Her column has won five national and state writing awards.

Colleen free-lances for publications produced by the Ventura County Farm Bureau, Community Memorial Hospital and California Lutheran University.

She serves as adviser to the Echo, the California Lutheran University student newspaper.

Colleen facilitates the following CNL course:

• In Your Own Words: How to Write an Opinion Piece That Gets Your Nonprofit’s Point Across

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