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Michael Krasny

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Dr. Michael Krasny is the host and senior editor of KQED's award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and technology.

Since 1970, he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University and is a widely published scholar and critic as well as a former regular contributor to Mother Jones magazine and a fiction writer. He has also worked widely as a facilitator and host in the corporate sector and as moderator for a host of major non-profit events.

Krasny received his B.A. (Cum Laude, 1966) and M.A. (1967) degrees from Ohio University, where he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his Ph.D. degree from University of Wisconsin in 1971.

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Michael Krasny is also the name of the billionaire former chief executive officer of CDW Computer Centers, a direct seller of technical gadgets including computers and networking equipment. Krasny's previous job before creating CDW was that of a Toyota car salesman (for his father).

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