Advisors for Magazine and Digital Program

Christopher Donnellan is an attorney with 17 years of experience in publishing whose clients have included book, newspaper, and magazine publishers. He prides himself on being the "voice of reason" in complex negotiations. As Executive Director of Rights and Permissions at Condé Nast, he applies his negotiating skills to finding ways to decrease editorial costs while facilitating new and innovative ways to deliver content to consumers. A frustrated painter, photographer, and avowed technology junkie, Donnellan has embraced creative problem solving in a digital world with unabashed joy.

Joseph Galarneau oversaw the technology, manufacturing, distribution, print, and digital advertising operations, and real estate functions for Newsweek. Prior to joining the magazine, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Thomas Publishing and served as the first CTO of New York Magazine. Previously, Galarneau worked for a global consulting firm, leading a practice focused on the U.S. magazine, book publishing, and commercial printing industries. He is an adjunct faculty member at New York University, where he developed the school’s first digital product management course. He has visited China annually since 2007 to teach digital media seminars to more than one thousand publishing executives. Galarneau is on the national advisory board for the Internet Strategy Forum. He received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.S. in physics from North Carolina State University.

Dorothy Kalins is a magazine consultant and book producer. Under her direction, Metropolitan Home and Saveur have won four National Magazine Awards. In 2001, she joined Newsweek as executive editor, helping to direct its National Magazine Award-winning coverage of 9/11. Kalins was the first woman named Adweek’s Editor of the Year. She has received the prestigious Matrix Award and was named the 2010 Exceptional Woman in Publishing by EWIP. She has co-edited eight books developed from her magazines. At Dorothy Kalins Ink, she produced the award-winning My New Orleans, with John Besh (2009), and Heart of the Artichoke with Chez Panisse chef David Tanis. Kalins consults for Budget Travel, Experience Life, and other magazines. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Corby Kummer edits articles on politics and public affairs and writes a regular food column. He is also the editor of The Atlantic Food Channel, a blog devoted to food. He has been called "a dean among food writers in America" by The San Francisco Examiner. As a reporter and a writer he takes his work very seriously. Kummer has been a restaurant critic for New York Magazine and Boston Magazine. He is the winner of five James Beard Journalism Awards (most recently in 2008), and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Less than a year after its launch, The Atlantic Food Channel was nominated in 2010 as best magazine department on the Internet. Kummer graduated from Yale University in 1979.

Kevin McKean oversees the editorial content and design for all of Consumers Union’s publications, including Consumer Reports magazine, special-interest publications, newsletters, Consumer Reports TV News, and ConsumerReports.org, the nation's largest subscription-based website. Consumer Reports magazine has more than four million subscribers and newsstand buyers; ConsumerReports.org has more than three million subscribers. McKean began his career as a Staff Writer and National Science Writer for the Associated Press and later served as a Writer and Senior Editor for Discover magazine, Senior Editor for Money magazine, Founding Editor of Money.com, Assistant Managing Editor of Business and Finance at Time Inc. New Media, Executive Editor at Forbes.com, Editorial Director at PC World, and CEO and Editorial Director at InfoWorld Media Group in San Francisco. He is a cum laude graduate of Yale University, class of 1974.