Karen Terrill teaches crisis communications as a contractor with the Department of Homeland Security, and as an Associate with Argonne National Laboratory. She has had three careers: Public School Teacher, Broadcast Journalist and Public Information Officer. Decades of experience in those fields prepared her for the rewarding work she is doing today.

Her company, Media Survival Group, specializes in a two-day workshop that turns individual PIOs from multiple jurisdictions into a team of communicators ready to respond to their community’s next crisis. Participants in this workshop learn Crisis Communications and Risk Communications from the fundamentals to using the latest audio, video, and social media platforms. Each class is hyper-local, emphasizing realistic hazards and working within local government structures.