Carol Trimmer
Outreach Coordinator

My background and experience prepared me for my current position as Indiana Public Radio's Outreach Coordinator, but I came to public radio by a circuitous route. I graduated from Purdue University with a double major in English and Speech and expected to spend my life teaching high school English. But it didn't happen that way. After moving to Muncie, I spent the next 20 years working for U.S. Congressman Phil Sharp, and came to Indiana Public Radio in 1996 after Sharp had retired from Congress. I have also worked as a permissions editor for Harcourt Brace Publishing Company, as marketing director for Hopewell Review (Arts Indiana Press), business manager for Broad Ripple Press, and proofreader/editor for Walker Information (Indianapolis). But my earlier expectations regarding my teaching career were not completely wrong: I taught high school English in the Lafayette (Indiana) area before moving to Muncie. My (unpaid) work in the community includes 11 years as an alumnae officer at the district and regional level for Kappa Alpha Theta, an international women's social fraternity, including my role as national chairman of the $2 million capital fund drive for Alpha Chi Chapter (1990-95); eight years as Second District Coordinator for "We the People Ö the Citizen and the Constitution;" and I currently serve as vice president of Delaware County's CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates) advisory board. My responsibilities as Outreach Coordinator for Indiana Public Radio include

• … working with other development staff to promote the station …
• the program guide, WAVES (of which I am editor), and other station publications,
• … editing the station's web site for content,
• … serving as liaison between the staff and the IPR Advisory Council, and
• … special projects and promotions that help to increase support for the station.

I am married to Joe Trimmer, a Ball State faculty member and Director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. We have one son, Bob, who resides in Bloomington with his wife and family.

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