Michael Downs

News director, anchor, reporter and talk show host at various radio and TV stations in Spartanburg, S.C., Columbia, S.C. and Sailsbury, Md., 1983-1992.
Director of community relations for the Milwaukee Brewers, 1992-2001.
Recipient of the Black Image Award from the Jeannetta Robinson Community Youth Center, Milwaukee; the Milwaukee Times Black Excellence Award.
Currently a graduate student in leadership studies at the University of San Diego.
Earned a bachelor of science in mass communications from UW-L in 1983.