Social Activism
King has served on several boards and committees in the state of Maine, such as the Bangor Public Library board. She served on the board of the Maine Public Broadcasting System until 1994, and has received a Constance Carlson award for her work with literacy for the state of Maine.
She currently serves as vice president of WZON/WZLO/WKIT, as well as in the administration of two family philanthropic foundations.
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“The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today’s social change is to begin to perceive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.”
—Margaret Adams (b. 1916)