Harriet Lange
1916 SW Sieben Court
Topeka, KS 66611
Cell: (785) 608-8687
Home: (785) 232-5341
Email: hlange@cox.net
Harriet is president of KAB where she began in 1982. She is responsible for government relations and advocacy, planning KAB’s seminars and conventions, overseeing KAB’s Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program, scholarship and paid internship programs, station broadcast awards, broadcaster participation in the Kansas AMBER Alert program, KAB's public service and outreach initiatives, and management of KAB affiliate organizations – KAB Foundation and Kansas Marketing Services, Inc.
In addition to her service as treasurer of the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government, Harriet is a member of the State Emergency Alert System (EAS) Committee and the Attorney General's Amber Alert Task Force. She is a past president of Kansas Society of Association Executives (KSAE) and the National Alliance of State Broadcast Associations. She is a 1985 graduate of Leadership Kansas and earned her CAE (certified association executive) designation that same year from American Society of Association Executives. In 1992, the radio/television faculty at the University of Kansas presented Harriet the Grover Cobb Award for Broadcasting Service. She was named Association Executive of the Year in 1998 by KSAE. Also in 1998, she was appointed by then-Governor Bill Graves to serve on his Grant Advisory Committee for Substance Abuse Prevention. KAB inducted Harriet into the Kansas Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2003 and recognized her with the Distinguished Service Award in 2006.
Harriet’s home town is Linn, Kansas. She attended Kansas State University and graduated from Washburn University in 1970 with a B.A. degree in economics. She went to work for the Kansas Department of Economic Development (now Department of Commerce), where she worked in research, industrial development promotion, and finally as director of travel and tourism from 1977 to 1980. From 1980 to 1982 she was director of sales for a Lawrence hotel. She was a charter member of Kansas Travel Industry Association of Kansas and received the tourism industry’s Individual Achievement Award in 1980.
Harriet is married to Mike Nowak who teaches in USD 501 in Topeka.