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Renate Kurowski-Cardello

  

As President of the Kurt Forrest Foundation, Renate Kurowski-Cardello has been creating and supporting scholarship programs for institutions of higher education such as MIT, NYU and Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, she has initiated and sponsored numerous projects within teaching hospitals in Laos and Cambodia, as well as other educational organizations. Prior to her appointment at the Foundation, she founded RKC Productions,  a television production company, where she produced news and magazine style pieces for Stern TV, ARD German Television and other media outlets. As a journalist, she started her career as producer at ARD German Television’s New York Studio. She holds a Master’s Degree from Ludwig Maximilian's University, Munich in Communication Science. Currently, she serves as Honorary Trustee at German International School New York where she joined the Board in 2006 and served as Board Secretary within the Executive Committee and later headed the Personnel Committee for numerous years. She also serves on the Board of Governors of Off-the-Record.