About Us

Carney & Associates provides publicity services for authors, experts, businesses, and non-profits. We specialize in lifestyle topics and our clients are featured on the nation's top-rated TV and radio shows, and in the most influential magazines, websites, blogs, and newspapers. We excel in major market media tours and recently conducted campaigns for:

• Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She is the author of Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, and also writes the popular blog Food Politics.

• Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He is the author of 40 books including The Population Bomb, one of the first books to bring environmental science to the general public.

• Andy Revkin, who writes the Dot Earth blog for The New York Times and is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University.

• Alexandra Paul, star of Baywatch plus 75 other movies and TV shows.

• Jay Rosenstein, writer, producer and director of the Peabody and Emmy award-winning PBS documentary The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today.

• Lisa Hymas, senior editor and co-founder of Grist.org, the nation's leading online environmental news organization.

KATHLENE CARNEY

Prior to opening Carney & Associates publicity firm in 1985, Kathlene Carney was a talkshow producer for ABC's KGO-AM, the largest news/talk radio station in Northern California. She also worked as a news producer for NBC's KNBR-AM, and she produced talk programming for KSFO-AM and KYA-FM in the San Francisco market.

Kathlene graduated with honors from San Francisco State University with a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts. She's a member of the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association, and the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club where she served as vice president and secretary. Kathlene continues her education through seminars, conferences and classes.

Kathlene lives in Marin County, California with her husband and two children.

ROBIN FAHR

Robin has worked on both sides of the camera for more than 20 years. She currently hosts and produces Conversations with Robin Fahr at Tri-Valley TV, a regional TV talk show that showcases interesting people in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's served as a TV news anchor, investigative reporter, assignment editor, and news producer for several stations including KGO-TV in San Francisco.

As a publicist, Robin has booked authors and experts on hundreds of local, regional and national media outlets, and represented clients such as Prince Michael of Greece, Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams, Andrea McArdle, Philip Kingsley, Shirley Conran, Chuck Barris and many others.

Robin graduated with honors from San Francisco State University with a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts.

She currently lives in Walnut Creek, CA.