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Scott Harris is the co-founder and executive producer of Between The Lines Radio news magazine, a syndicated public affairs program broadcast on 40+ radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. http://www.btlonline.org

Since 1984 Harris has been the host of "COUNTERPOINT," a weekly public affairs radio program examining national and regional political, economic and social issues. http://www.wpkn.org

From 1991 to 2002 Mr. Harris was the public affairs director at WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT

In addition he is the founder and past president of the Norwalk Nagarote (Nicaragua) Sister City Project (N/NSCP)which was organized in the city of Norwalk, CT in 1986. He organized community support to initiate a relationship between this impoverished Nicaraguan city and institutions and individuals in the Greater Norwalk, CT area. Activities have included material aid shipments, cultural exchange programs and reciprocal visits. He currently is a member of N/NSCP Board of Directors. http://www.sistercityproject.com

He currently serves as the director of NEON (Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now) community corrections residential programs - 3 residential facilities where inmates re-integrate into the community from prison.

From 1977 to 1983 Mr. Harris was a Community Organizer with the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, where he organized neighborhood, tenant groups and statewide issue campaigns for Connecticut's largest citizen activist group.

In 1983 and 1985 he served on the campaign staff of Norwalk, CT Mayor William Collins.

Harris has since 1981 produced and written various pieces as a free lance print and radio journalist. He has contributed radio news segments for NPR's All Things Considered; Pacifica News; Free Speech Radio News, Making Contact and This Way Out.

Articles written for publications include, E Magazine, a national environmental journal, and Fairfield County Weekly: Investigative reporting on Champion International paper mill pollution on Pigeon River, North Carolina; Rev. Moon's Unification Church businesses in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Interviews with musician Pete Seeger and paleo- anthropologist Richard Leakey.

Harris received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts in 1977.