Margaret Bernstein

Margaret Bernstein is the Director of Advocacy and Community Initiatives at WKYC Channel 3. A devoted champion of literacy, Margaret earned a 2016 Emmy for her #WeReadHere campaign at WKYC. She is the author of a series of storybooks with multicultural illustrations that are designed to help fathers and their young children develop a ritual of reading together. Her latest book in the “Dads Day” series is titled “The Fathers Walk”.

Margaret Bernstein is the Director of Advocacy and Community Initiatives at WKYC Channel 3. A devoted champion of literacy, Margaret earned a 2016 Emmy for her #WeReadHere campaign at WKYC, which encouraged parents to read every day with their children. She served six years on the Little Free Library board of trustees.

A Los Angeles native, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at The Plain Dealer, Ohio’s largest daily newspaper, from 1989 to 2013. A recipient of many journalism honors, Margaret won the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists’ first-place award for minority issues reporting in 2011 and 2012, for co-writing a series of profiles about the 11 Imperial Avenue victims and their families.

She is an award-winning community volunteer as well. Margaret was named the National Big Sister of the Year in 2000 for her work with two Cleveland girls, Cora and Ernestine, through the local Big Brother Big Sister agency. She was also a longtime volunteer with the Urban Journalism Workshop, an annual program for high school students put on by local black journalists. And she currently serves as a trustee of the George Gund Foundation, a Cleveland-centered foundation that focuses its grantmaking on environmental issues, democracy building and racial equity.

Margaret Bernstein is also the writer of The Bond, a memoir on fatherlessness by The Three Doctors, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins. That experience led her to write a series of storybooks with multicultural illustrations that are designed to help fathers and their young children develop a ritual of reading together. Her latest book in the “Dads Day” series is titled “The Fathers Walk”.

Margaret is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. She married to Shaker Heights Chief Prosecutor C. Randolph Keller, and is the mother of two children, Randy and Alexandria.

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