Currently pursuing a masters in Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) with a concentration in Public Relations at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, Kathy knows the power of messaging, story and community engagement.
As a community organizer in five states for the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), Kathy directed issue-oriented campaign offices, advocated for public policy issues, generated press hits, and implemented community engagement strategies. As a director of marketing for Silicon Valley Internet start-ups, Kathy launched regional and national internet communications and digital storytelling products, created marketing campaigns and developed business and community partnerships.
Kathy produced five years of CruzioTV, a monthly technology education program at Community Television in Santa Cruz, CA. Her social documentation projects have been featured in three film festivals and as a 2008 winner of a Hometown Video award.
Kathy has credits on many shorts and feature length video productions, as producer, host, camera operator, line producer, editor and executive producer, including as co-producer on "Cafe Maya," a documentary about agro-ecology, sustainability and community organizing among the Maya of Guatemala. Cafe Maya was recently named as a finalist for the 2008 Western Area Video Awards.
Kathy currently serves on the regional board of the Alliance for Community Media-West, and was an organizer for the Access Without Borders Conference in 2008. When she's not working, driving, on the phone or editing, Kathy can be found kayaking on Monterey Bay.
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The commute is beautiful, though nearly an hour each way, the staff, board and community are helpful and welcoming, and the work is exactly what I'm meant to be doing. Fulfilling, challenging, technical, building community, working with youth and media, wearing many hats, and political.
Today I spoke to third-graders about how to become a filmmaker. They are the future, seriously. Great questions, interest in other countries and cultures, in learning technology and people. I don't remember being that cool in third grade.
Well-Oiled Machine was screened with an internationally-produced feature film about alternative fuel, called "Fields of Fuel," on Tuesday, May 13th at 7pm at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Thanks for coming out!
Please contact me if you'd like to be on the mailing list for the new film (trailer above) or involved in supporting my work. I'll send you the link to some of the journal stories from the adventures in Cuba, Nicaragua and Guatemala and the incredible people we met there who are using music as a tool for social change.
Hope all is well in your world. I hope to see you soon!
Best,
Kathy