Kim Lynn Nauer
Revson Fellow 2004-2005
Executive Director
City Futures, Inc.
Kim Nauer is currently a Project Editor at The Nation Institute’s Investigative Reporting Fund where she is responsible for project development, editorial recruitment and developing the program’s reach and impact. In addition, Ms. Nauer is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a free-lance writer specializing in local and national policy investigations. Previously, Ms. Nauer was the publisher of City Limits Magazine, a monthly public policy magazine with a weekly news bulletin, and executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, a think tank specializing in New York City development, work and education-oriented issues. She ran the two projects for six years and, before that, served as a senior editor at City Limits. While Ms. Nauer was publisher, City Limits Magazine won nearly a dozen major journalism awards including Columbia University School of Journalism’s prestigious Mike Berger Award for human interest reporting, the Enterprise Foundation and Freedom Forum’s Excellence in Urban Journalism Award, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in Child Welfare Coverage, the Educational Writers Association National Award for Educational Reporting and repeated awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Kim has personally won a range of journalism awards for her coverage of public housing, family court, the child welfare system and the financing of slumlord-owned real estate. Awards include the 1995 James Wright Brown Award for excellence in public service reporting presented by the Society of Professional Journalists, the 1995 Emery A. Brownell Media Award for outstanding legal coverage presented by National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the second place 1998 Harry Chapin Media Award for excellence in periodical writing presented by World Hunger Year. She is also a graduate of Coro’s Leadership New York Program and a 2000 Coro Alumni Award winner. During her Revson year, Ms. Nauer undertook an interdisciplinary independent research project exploring New York City’s next generation of community, institutional, and political leaders. She also took courses at the Business School and the School of Journalism.
(The Revson Fellow’s biography that appears above was last updated in 2004. Revson Fellows may update their biographies on this site by sending email to: revson@columbia.edu)
More than anything that Columbia had to offer, I feel that I’ve lived 9 new lives vicariously through the 9 other fellows. These are the 9 lives struggling and working for the City, while I was too, that I never knew about. My horizon has been broadened through which I would never have gotten in my classrooms.
[Robin is a Master’s degree candidate at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health.]
