Myrna James Yoo
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Myrna James Yoo is an international book, magazine and online publisher based in Denver, Colorado. Her publishing company, Blueline Publishing LLC (www.bluelinepub.com) was founded in 2003 to provide strategic consulting and publishing outsourcing with integrity and national expertise for socially-conscious projects. Most projects focus on environmental and climate change issues, with the primary goal of long-term sustainability for the planet and all living species.
She currently owns Imaging Notes (www.imagingnotes.com), an international business-to-business and business-to-government magazine for geospatial technologies, which was acquired from Space Imaging in 2005 to become one of the few independently owned publications in this niche. Imaging Notes covers Earth remote sensing for energy, security and the environment globally, for decision-makers within remote sensing and satellite imaging organizations.
In 2005, the first book was published with the Blueline Publishing imprint. Published books include The Last Little Polar Bear by Tim Foresman (former director of United Nations Environment Programme and of NASA’s Digital Earth Program), which is an illustrated children’s story about climate change, printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper.
Myrna began her publishing career in 1990 in Chicago with national magazines. Prior to moving to Colorado, Myrna took an 18-month trip around the world solo, publishing her journey on a live website – one of the first blogs. She was contacted by the New York Times during this time for a story regarding the live site, and the ease of traveling with the internet. She was published in Dandelion Magazine (now Women’s Adventure), Student Travels Magazine, and on various web travelogues, including Whispers Online Magazine for Women. She found herself rounding up cattle via helicopter on an Outback Australian Cattle Station, had close calls with leeches during the monsoon in Nepal, lived in caves and tree-houses in Turkey, debated politics with a Frenchman of her father’s generation, and sang “Summertime” all over the world. She also did two Habitat for Humanity Global Village volunteer trips to New Zealand and Alaska, and claims that the new global perspective corrected the course of her life.
Myrna graduated from the Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and minors in Sociology and Women’s Studies. She was selected upon graduating to join the newly-created and much-publicized enrollment management team as an Admissions Representative, where for three years she recruited high schools students to further their education at K-State. The team created significant and enduring increases in enrollment and was honored by the City of Manhattan, Kansas, for their contributions to the local economy. President Jon Wefald still leads the university, and is also credited with a complete turn-around of the Division I football team. The university’s success in all areas has lasted for two decades.
Myrna has served on the Board of Directors for The Odyssey Institute (www.odyssey-institute.org); Women for Education (www.womenforeducation.org); Women Business Executives (www.wbexecutives.org); and The Denver Future Forum. She is a member of the Independent Press Association. In Chicago, she was a member of the Chicago Advertising Federation, a Chicago Cares volunteer and project manager, and a Glad Tidings Founding Board Member, where she was selected as 1997 Volunteer of the Year.
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