Bio

Kate’s life is split between her communications work with nonprofit organizations and her work as a documentary playwright, interviewing people and turning their verbatim words into audio and stage dramas. She loves telling true stories about real people and important topics.

Today, Kate’s mission is to change how nonprofits approach communications and storytelling—from who is at the table shaping communications values and goals to how people are asked to share their personal stories. From how interviews are conducted to what informed consent in storytelling looks like. From what stories are being told to whose perspective those narratives truly reflect. She believes that communicating for social change can lead to both short- and long-term good and be empowering for communities at the same time if we prioritize partnership and ceding power.

For nearly a decade, she directed communications for the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, where she helped create a national movement to reduce health disparities by making access to legal services a standard part of quality health care. Kate was also previously a communications officer with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Children’s Mental Health Campaign. She has expertise working with health care and legal services organizations and with cross-sector partnerships.

Kate is a lecturer in the Department of Human Services at Northeastern University where she developed and teaches an undergraduate course in nonprofit communications. She is a documentary playwright and the co-founder and former co-director of The Perpetual Visitors Theatre Company in Boston, Massachusetts.