Kathy Bisbee Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area

I am currently serving as the Director of the Alliance for Digital Equity, a grassroots, facilitative leadership-modeled digital equity coalition serving 70+ organizations in all four counties of western Massachusetts, housed in the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), under the community anchor umbrella of Baystate Health. The Alliance for.

Brookline, MA

The Public VR Lab is growing a networked field for Community XR that promotes accessibility, digital inclusion, and digital skills training. The Lab is disrupting traditional media communications in community-based civic media, journalism and arts, cultural and educational organizations by providing access to low-cost XR Toolkits, equipment checkouts.

Brookline, Massachusetts

For nine years, I led the talented team at Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), a community media arts education center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and worked locally, regionally and nationally to build the field of public and community-based media. I oversaw public media budget and assets of over $2.3 million, managed our administration, operations and.

Boston, MA

A research fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, I collaborated with other fellows, conducted research, created tutorials, curriculum and programs building a field for Community XR. I prototyped Arrival VR, a participatory, immersive migration storytelling project, featured artist at Hubweek Boston in 2018.

Gilroy, CA And Santa Cruz, CA

CMAP and CTV are two non-profit organizations spread out over three counties, providing community access to the media and professional digital communications services to sixteen municipalities and their residents. As executive director, I led both organizations, hired to transition CTV through a major operational crisis and towards a more sustainable.

Northern California

After producing, directing and editing award-winning short and medium length format documentaries and commercial online marketing video productions, I led a co-created documentary amplifying the voices of youth and leaders in Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala and the U.S. who used music to create meaningful personal and social change within their communities.

During my first stint at CTV, I produced promotional videos, wrote and submitted grants, generated all organizational marketing collateral, created new class curriculum, developed trade opportunities with local media, businesses, education, local Film Festivals, and non-profits, conducted a community needs assessment, attracted paid productions, developed.

Promoted to Director in just three weeks from date of hire as Senior Marketing Manager, I led the marketing, public relations and offline/online marketing initiatives to successfully attract potential business partners, increase the online customer base and obtain national media placements. As Creative Director for OurStory's launch at DEMO '07, I built a.

--Managed marketing team; planned marketing communications, advertising and direct mail campaigns, brand management, directed design and production standards for bilingual marketing collateral;--Directed public relations effort for community and media relations to generate proactive brand strategy; wrote and reviewed online and print articles;--Directed.

Provided fast and courteous customer service/technical support for Internet services, researched and solved technical problems, documented research, created technical and training documents, developed curriculum for public and staff trainings, and taught Internet classes. I joined Cruzio in 1997 as a sales/customer service representative and quickly moved.

Organized fundraising and campaign events; implemented public relations plans and campaign strategy, coordinated meetings with coalition partners, elected officials, fundraising efforts via direct mail and special events, wrote articles, reviewed and published newsletters, advertising and campaign documents, built community coalitions, oversaw interns and.

Maintained membership database, revised communications and public relations materials, facilitated team meetings, created direct mail, presentations and provided follow-up to large donors and foundations. Attended grant-writing workshops, submitted grants and received substantial funding.

Recruited, supervised and trained hundreds of campaign staff, managed fundraising plan and local budget, directed strategic approach to media and university relations, wrote and reviewed press releases, organized press conferences and maintained membership database. Oversaw interns and volunteers, organized special events and analyzed outreach statistics.

Fellow, Open Documentary Lab

Activities and Societies: Hacking XR, Hackathons

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science/Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: Founded 2 independent college newspapers Worked part-time at college and local public radio station Interned at.

Masters In Integrated Marketing Communications & Public Relations, Public Relations, Advertising, And Applied Communication