Leif Utne
VP Sales and Marketing
Quantum Shift TV

612.326.5256

LEIF UTNE
QUANTUM SHIFT
leif@quantumshift.tv
http://www.quantumshift.tv/
http://leifutne.wordpress.com/

BIOGRAPHY
Leif is a journalist, activist, musician and social entrepreneur.

Prior to joining QuantumShift, he worked as Publisher of Worldchanging.com, a Seattle-based online magazine about solutions for a sustainable future. Worldchanging is widely respected for it's global reach and diverse team of contributors, and has grown to become the most widely-read blog about sustainability.

Before Worldchanging, Leif spent eight years at Utne Reader magazine, which was founded by his father, Eric Utne. He still hosts and produces the magazine's UtneCast podcast , a biweekly interview show featuring independent perspectives on politics, culture and ideas.

At Utne Reader, Leif served in a variety of editorial and business roles, including Webmaster, Online Managing Editor, Associate Editor and Staff Writer. Leif also worked closely with the groundbreaking online community Cafe Utne - now an independent nonprofit organization called the New Cafe, of which he is a board member - organizing discussions with authors and readers, and consulting to a wide range of clients on their online community-building efforts.

Leif still writes regularly for both Utne Reader and his own blog on topics like activism, globalization, technology, the environment, and Latin American politics. In 2001, he was named a "New Media Hero" by AlterNet.org, and his article "Don't Cry for Argentina" was picked as one of Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Stories of 2003.

In 2004, Leif co-founded the Let's Talk America project, a nationwide dialogue initiative aimed at healing the political chasm in the United States through bridging conversations.