Kathleen brings more than eighteen years of experience in strategic communications, government relations, grassroots organizing and campaign consulting to the helm of KRC. In 2009, we celebrated seven years of telling stories and moving mountains.

Kathleen serves as the lead strategist on all KRC projects and generates all of the firm’s new business. In 2008, she co-directed and produced the award-winning film Family Court Crisis: Our Children At Risk for the Center for Judicial Excellence (CJE). She coordinates all of CJE’s advocacy and media relations work in Sacramento and in Washington, D.C. and she works closely with the Alaska Federation of Natives on a wide range of their political communications initiatives.

Kathleen has generated media coverage and published op-eds for clients in a host of national and local news outlets, including Good Morning America, New York Times, AP, CBS Early Show, The Economist, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, NPR, Capitol Weekly, Marin Independent Journal, Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” and nearly all of the national broadcast networks.

Before starting her Marin County-based firm, Kathleen was one of the highest-producing Senior Project Managers at Seattle’s Pyramid Communications, where she spent four years generating new business and managing many of the firm’s accounts with Native organizations and nonprofits working for racial, social, environmental and economic justice. She lobbied Washington State’s Legislature for two years on immigrant rights and other anti-poverty issues as the Legislative Director for the Washington Association of Churches, helping craft that state’s TANF plan and some of the most progressive immigrant food stamp protections in the nation. Kathleen also provided vital health services to women at Planned Parenthood and founded a grassroots organization to combat hate crimes against Montana’s Jewish and LGBT communities. She has worked with all levels of government and society - from organizing political events at The White House and United States Congress to building grassroots organizations from the ground up.

Kathleen is an alumna of the 2005 Class of Emerge: Women Leaders for a Democratic Future and served on the Executive Board of the Democratic Central Committee of Marin. She previously served as a political consultant for the Montana Democratic Party and managed a number of winning legislative races in western Montana during the 1994 cycle. In 1995, she worked as an Aide to Montana Senate Minority Leader Mike Halligan. She also managed the early stage of the No! 200 statewide initiative campaign in Washington State in the effort to preserve affirmative action there.

Kathleen holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives and works in San Rafael, where she practices yoga and hikes the glorious trails of Marin County when she is not traveling to Mexico, Alaska, Washington, D.C. or beyond.


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