Kathleen brings more than fifteen years of experience in strategic communications, government relations, grassroots organizing and campaign consulting to the helm of KRC. Her recent and current clients include the Center for Judicial Excellence, Prosperity Partners, Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership, and the Alaska Federation of Natives.

Kathleen has worked with all levels of government and society - from organizing political events at The White House to co-producing a six-day benefit concert for the United Nations. She lobbied Washington’s Legislature on immigrant rights and other issues, 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 generated media coverage for clients in a host of national and local news outlets, including Good Morning America, New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, AP, Seattle Times, KQED’s The Forum, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now and nearly all of the national broadcast networks.

Kathleen graduated in 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 campaign in Washington in the effort to preserve affirmative action there.

KRC turned six in May 2008. Before starting her Marin County-based firm, Kathleen was one of the highest-producing Senior Project Managers at Seattle’s Pyramid Communications, where she brought in significant new business and managed many of the firm’s accounts with Native organizations and nonprofits working for racial, social, environmental and economic justice.

Kathleen holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives, works and plays in San Rafael, where she remains active in a broad range of community activities when she is not traveling to Mexico, Alaska or beyond.


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