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Kim Carpenter—Senior Staff Writer
Kim Carpenter earned her Ph.D. in German history from Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies and has been both a Fulbright and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst to Germany. Much of her graduate studies centered on examining the Holocaust and what led to the German people perpetrating genocide. “It was an honor and a privilege to interview Mr. Bak,” she said. “He is the last generation of Jews who survived the Holocaust. We’ve said ‘never again,’ but people have a way of forgetting. I hope his story serves as an urgent reminder.”
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David Williams—Contributing Writer
After decades working for a Fortune 500 communications company, this late bloomer stumbled upon a totally accidental second career when he was published around the time of his 47th birthday. The award-winning writer went on to become the editor of the Omaha Magazine family of titles after holding the same position at both The Reader and Metro Magazine. His almost decade-long absence from writing is explained by the fact that he has been institutionalized in a clinic nestled in the Swiss Alps that specializes in the treatment of Scriptoris Obstructionum, the malady more commonly known as writer’s block.
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Michael Kelly—Contributing Writer
Over a 48-year career with the Omaha World-Herald, Michael Kelly covered police, courts, the county, and city hall, and spent a decade as sports editor and sports columnist; he also penned a column in the general-news sections for 27 years. In 2003, he received the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ first-place national award for commentary and column writing. In more recent years, he twice won first place for column writing in the eight-state Great Plains Journalism Awards and was inducted into the inaugural class of the Great Plains Journalism Hall of Fame in 2021. Over his career and through retirement, he’s written a number of books on Omaha and high-profile figures in the metro. Kelly and his wife, Barbara, have four children and 11 grandchildren.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of Omaha Magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
