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Colin Burch
Persuasion Consultant for Executives and Candidates
"I make your speeches stronger. I make your letters more persuasive."
Lecturer in English at Coastal Carolina University
Columnist for the Weekly Surge: Beerman and Strange Days
Recipient of a scholarship to the 2006 C.S. Lewis Foundation Summer Institute
Winner of awards from the N.C. Press Association and the S.C. Press Association
Graduate of the Knight Ridder Assigning Editors Seminar
Graduate of the Leadership Institute's Broadcast Journalism School
Completed the Committee of Concerned Journalists Newsroom Workshop
Semi-Finalist, the 1996 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship
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