Alice Klein Editor/CEO

Conceived in Mexico and born in New York City, Alice Klein editor/CEO and co-founder/owner of NOW magazine, credits her first generation immigrant roots for the ability to do a lot with very little that has been fundamental to NOW's success from the very beginning.

Her lifelong passion for social change was awakened when, as a young child in Philadelphia, she was horrified by the inner city's slum conditions. Her connection to the cultural vanguard also started early. When she moved to Toronto in 1959, her U of T musicologist stepfather immediately founded one of the first electronic music studios in the world.

Alice was an anti-war activist and feminist pioneer while still in high school. She got her editing start in a crusading publication, the Velvet Fist, in 1971. Her first essay on working women in turn of the century Toronto was published as a Toronto Book Award winner while she was still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. Last year, she was named one of the 100 Graduates who Shaped the Century by the U of T Alumnae Association.

Alice first worked with Michael Hollett as a participant in student politics and the campus newspaper while she was a social history graduate student at York University. These seemingly impractical pursuits paid off in spades a few years later when she undertook to shape and develop NOW's heavy-hitting and iconoclastic news section.

Facing the challenges of being an employer and a mother of two have led Alice to broaden her passion for social change to include the exploration of inner peace. As a writer for the paper, she continues to draw on her experience in politics, business and psychology to focus on issues related to archetypal evolution and the global economy. As CEO of NOW Magazine, Alice combines a strikingly creative approach to problem solving with a hard-nosed and highly detailed financial appreciation of publishing.