Ken Krayeske is a Hartford, Connecticut based attorney who practices in commercial litigation and a variety of other areas of law. Ken is a 2010 graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law and a 1994 graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.
To pay the bills, Ken has written for daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines, taught youth journalism, been a snowboard instructor, flipped burgers, manufactured minor league baseball cards, worked as a deckhand on a trans-Atlantic megayacht, and campaigned for Ralph Nader, among many other things. Ken is fluent in Spanish.
Most recently, he ran for United States Congress in Connecticut’s First Congressional District with the Connecticut Green Party in 2010, garnering a little more than one percent of the vote.
What they say about Ken Krayeske:
“Political activist” – The Progressive Magazine
“He’s sort of a pain in the neck, but he is completely necessary. [W]hen he’s wrong he’s very easy to dismiss and when he’s right he’s often talking about an uncomfortable subject that many of the rest of us have skipped past. So having him around is kind of a no-lose proposition.” – Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant
“Duplicitious” – Kyle Muncy, University of Connecticut Sports Information Office
“Uncredentialed” – University of Connecticut men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun
“Grandstanding” – ESPN’s Pat Forde
“A modern day Thomas Paine” – Connecticut media professor/analyst Rick Hanson
“Itinerant rabble rouser… impotent” – CT Post columnist Ken Dixon
“Whistleblower” – CT Journalist Doug Hardy
“Ken is more passionate about human life and an individual’s potential than anyone I’ve met, and I’m happy to call him my friend.” – Adam Talbot, Vernon, CT
“Notorious” – National online sportswriter Jay Mariotti
“Gadfly…relatively insignificant fellow with an agenda, perhaps even a legitimate one” – Bud Poliquin of Syracuse.com
“Freelance reporter” – CTNewsjunkie.com
“A lazy lima bean” – Desmond Conner of the Hartford Courant