Speakers: Ken Dahlgren
Coordinator for NY State College Action Project Against Tobacco

2005-Present
Coordinator for NY State College Action Project Against Tobacco. Ken was responsible for developing new interventions for involving college students in the fight against the tobacco industry and its advertising, sponsorship and promotion.

Smoke Free Movies is one of our interventions. Active in training and supporting youth
groups around the world in activism against the tobacco industry (Including Smoke Free Movies).

2001-2005
Coordinator for Chautauqua County Reality Check (NY's Youth Action Project Against
Tobacco)

Responsible for developing this program in America. During this time Ken was also the Chair of their International Action Committee and developed partnerships and conducted trainings with other programs around the world. Ken helped NY develop and launch their Smokefree Movies Initiative and developed the concept and support for the First International Day of Action Aginst Smoking In The Movies (IDOA). Ken has been a planning member of the Smokefree Movies Action Network which was developed out of the IDOA.
1995-2001

Ken was a Councilman and Later County Legislator who worked to develop local laws restricting secondhand smoke.

Ken has also spent several years as an educator and owner of an advertising and printing company.