JUDAH FREED is a seasoned journalist and award-winning author of MAKING GLOBAL SENSE, inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and the novella satire, A FABLE OF LIBERTY LOST AND FOUND, which together have won six national awards since last year. Judah serves as editor of The Beacon for The Thomas Paine National Historical Association.Judah Freed also is the editor of END MEDICAL DEBT, a #1 Amazon bestseller in Health after its authors were featured on the PBS NewsHour. Overall, Judah has written or edited 15 books since 1982, earning a dozen national and international awards and nominations.JOURNALISM:Judah Ken Freed became a journalist in 1976 at age 25. He worked a decade as a reporter and editor for Denver and Colorado newspapers and magazines. After more schooling, he worked two decades as a correspondent and columnist for the top media trade magazines in the USA and Europe. He pioneered media industry coverage of interactive TV, the internet, and distance learning, writing a book on educational television for Financial Times MT (UK), speaking about "deep media literacy," digital privacy and network democracy at conferences on four continents. Judah moved to Kauai in 2010, working a decade for Hawaiian newspapers and magazines. Since his return to Denver in 2020, he serves as the Colorado reporter for a national news service, freelances, helps indie authors with their books, and writes his own books. BOOK AWARDS: Visionary Book Awards (COVR) - Earth Changes: Making Global Sense (2024) - Social Justice: Making Global Sense (2024) - Rising to the Challenge: Making Global Sense (2024) - Fiction: Fable of Liberty Lost & Found (2024)Nautilus Book Awards - Memoir: Making Global Sense (2023) - Social Change: Global Sense (2012) - Social Change: Global Sense (2007)Eric Hoffer Book Award - Culture: Making Global Sense (2023)Dayton Literary Peace Price) - Nominee Making Global Sense (2023)Benjamin Franklin Book Award (IBPA) - Health: End Medical Debt (2022)Indie Book Award (Foreword Magazine) - Health: Patent, Doctor, Bill Collector (2016) Evvy Award (Colorado Indie Publishers Assn.) - Personal Growth: Global Sense (2005)AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE:American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA. First Amendment and Banned Books Committee), PEN America, The Authors Guild (AG), Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and the Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR). He also served as a president and board director of the Colorado Authors League (CAL), board director and trade shows chair of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA), board director of the historic Denver Press Club, and founder 1,000-member Denver Book Club. He currently serves as a board director of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, for which he edits The Beacon.SPECIAL PROJECTS:Banned Books Week - USA - National Steering Committee (since 2023) - Colorado Coordinator (since 2024)RIP Medical Debt (Undue Medical Debt) - New York - Communications/Publishing Director (2017-22)Network of Spiritual Progressives Democratic National Convention - Denver - Global Marshall Plan Conference - Coordinator & Promoter (2008)The Windstar Foundation - Aspen - John Denver's Choices for the Future - Symposia Press Room Aide (1990-95)Denver International Week - Denver - Steering Committee (1990-91)Denver Museum of Natural History - Denver - The JASON Project (1989) - Live satcasts from Mediterranean seafloor - Denver CoordianatorDenver Forum on the Future - Denver - Steering Committee (1981-82) - Ecology Film Festival Organizer R. Buckminster Fuller Institute - Boulder - The World Game, hosted by Bucky - Denver PR Coordinator (1981)EDUCATION:Judah earned a 1988 double BA in journalism and communication through the University Without Walls at Loretto Heights College (Regis University). He researched public communication and organizational culture in the individualized MA program (ABT) of Antioch University. He found his writer's voice as a storyteller in The Story Workshop creative writing program at Colombia College Chicago, studying directly with John Schultz and Betty Shiflett.PERSONAL:A natural freethinker, Judah Freedevolved a global sensibility by surviving child abuse, cult faith, ego folly, and lethal cancer. The fourth-generation resident of Colorado has lived in New York City, Appalachia. Chicago, Los Angeles, and Hawaii, plus visiting four continents, so far. A cancer survivor, he now lives in Denver and works from his home office, dba Hoku House.Read more about this authorRead less about this author