Kim Priestap is the brains behind Turnberry Communications.

Kim has either been writing or teaching others how to write for 19 years. She graduated from The University of Toledo with a Bachelor’s degree in secondary education with a specialization in English.  Her first year out of college, she was a substitute teacher for one year and then went back to college and got her Master of Arts degree in Literature. From there Kim became an adjunct instructor at The University of Toledo’s Community and Technical College where she taught Basic Writing. She was 23 years old when she started teaching at ComTech, making her the youngest adjunct instructor at the college.

From there Kim taught Basic Writing, Composition I, and Composition II at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio and Monroe County Community College in Monroe, Michigan.

Kim left teaching in 1996 and went to work in private industry, first at BOC Gases, then Matrix Technologies, and finally Libbey Inc., where she was the product manager of foodservice glassware.

In December 2005, Kim began blogging about politics, culture, and current events at a blog that she created. One month later, Kevin at Wizbang asked if she would be interested in joining his group blog that had 15,000 readers a day. Kim jumped at the opportunity to write for a larger audience.

Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of the Washington Examiner, contacted Kim in 2007 and asked if she’d like to write an op-ed for his newspaper. It seems Mark had been following Kim’s blogging and liked what he read. Since then Kim has written additional articles for the Examiner as well as for Pajamas Media and American Issues Project, where she wrote a weekly column.

That initial op-ed at the Examiner was the first of many columns and what set her on the path to create Turnberry Communications.