About Kim Blacklock
Kim Blacklock entered the Schenectady City School District in 1970 as a seventh grader.   In eighth grade, she challenged the Schenectady City School Board to provide girls with interscholastic competitive sports or face a class action law suit. The superintendent at the time named Blacklock as a student rep to a task force committee to discover what the girls of Schenectady wanted for sports.  The federal amendment Title IX was passed in 1972.

Blacklock graduated from Mont Pleasant High School, from Mr. Joseph Zizzi's Mechanical Technical Program in 1975.  She lettered in basketball, volleyball and track while at MPHS.  She was also a member of the National, French and German Honor Societies and had five years of singing and acting in Paul Anderson's Madrigals and Ted Beardsley's Drama Program.

Blacklock went on to William Smith College on a four-year Regents Scholastic Scholarship.  She transferred to Rutgers University's Douglass College to play Division I AAUW Basketball for the Lady Knights' 1976-1977 squad. 

By 1979, Blacklock had tried out for the Pan-American Games, played AAU ball for the University of Colorado Medical Center and finally signed professionally with the Women's Basketball League.  She played center for the Minnesota Fillies.

In 1983, Blacklock received her B.A. in English from William Smith College.  In one summer, she and 12,000 other women,  brought world attention to a huge problem in a small village -  Romulus, New York - which was the world's largest storage site of nuclear weapons (the Seneca Army Depot).  The international sharing of information and public outcry led to world nations singing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Blacklock spent two years traveling Europe, Brazil and Costa Rica as a speaker, writer, reporter, photographer.  She returned to Schenectady in 1986 where she substitute taught at Steinmetz Jr. High and in her alma mater, Mont Pleasant High School.  Upon her return, she was pleased to learn that her favorite track coach was still teaching at Steinmetz and the English teacher at Mont Pleasant (in the same brown blazer) had become the department chair. 

Over the course of the years, Blacklock has worked as a customer accounts manager in Syracuse, a racetrack hotwalker in Kentucky, a radio DJ, a caterer, a housepainting and landscaping contractor, and editor in New Mexico, as a SAG actor in film and TV, and is still engaged in teaching, having recently finished seven years at the French-American School of New York (FASNY) in Mamaroneck, NY.    Blacklock taught English and Computer Arts, performed in school musical and fundraisers, coached basketball, advised the school prom, and made national award-winning bilingual yearbooks and literary magazine for FASNY in Mamaroneck, NY. 

Blacklock currently is a Masters candidate at Columbia University's Teachers College in the Motor Learning Program of the Bio-behavioral Sciences Department, studying cognitive functions and motor neurons.  Ms. Blacklock has lectured on research and student journalism at Columbia Scholastic Press Association conferences for the last six years, works for the Carmel Central School District and remains active on stage performing at Caroline's on Broadway.

She has a twelve year old son, three grown children, two of whom are married and live on the west coast, and six grandchildren.