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SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
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Raised in Los Angeles during the socially progressive 1970’s,
Drew Gowing rebelled (as was the form) by dropping-out of the prestigious University of Southern California after a semester to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [the Mormons] on a full time, two-year missionary assignment in Canada. Upon his return to the US, he enrolled at Brigham Young University where he studied philosophy and in 1989 earned the distinction, Bachelor of Arts.
He began his career as an intern on the Senate Labor and Human Resource Committee in Washington DC and ultimately ‘cut his teeth’ in the press rooms on Capitol Hill. It was here that public relations coalesced with political science, and toward the incontrovertible truth that publishing ensures, supports and shapes the world of politics. Upon entering graduate school at BU’s School of Public Policy and Law, he turned his attention to global management consulting and it’s focus to advise the world’s leaders in business and governmental institutions.
With the November 2008 election, however, three pivotal and important pieces of his past coincided when the LDS Church collected over 20M to promulgate the State of California’s Proposition 8. Herein Church, State, and Law collided in what is described as the only instance in US history where civil and pre-existing rights were taken away from a specific and targeted minority. And when the invitation came to preside over a culture-as-lifestyle publication the following month, he effectively re-entered the public sector to devote what he calls his ‘second act’ to its service.
Mr. Gowing conducts the affairs of Charlatan Magazine from Charlotte, North Carolina, under the shadow of the Hearst Empire.
