Kathryn Balleh is a Social Media Editor at The National News | Former Twitter News Curator | NYU Journalism and Near Eastern Studies at The National News. She possess expertise in writing, brand alignment, social media, internet culture, public speaking and 48 more skills. She is proficient in Persian, Spanish, Turkish, English and Arabic. Colleagues describe her as "Kat is a natural leader with sound news judgment and any company would be lucky to have her as a content lead or manager. As Kat’s hiring and people lead at Twitter, I worked directly with her and was constantly impressed by her editorial instincts, initiative and her thoughtful contributions in team meetings. In her role, Kat had to make quick decisions around content prioritization, facing breaking news, misleading narratives and some of the most challenging conversations on the platform. Kat led the content plan for the US Open, working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure every product lever and media partnership was thought out.
Kat thought deeply about inclusion and communities on the platform, pitching and leading a project for Curation’s representation task force. She also regularly led retros of Curation’s work to see how we could improve. One post-mortem centred on the team’s coverage of escalations between Israel and Palestine, which led to valuable lessons and new lists. She’s a mentor who regularly held trainings for new members of our team. Kat would excel as a people manager or desk lead and I can’t recommend her enough!" and "Kat is an incredible person I had the pleasure to manage at Dataminr from May 2019 to Nov 2020. She is brilliant, innovative, personable, and infectiously enthusiastic. During the year and a half we worked together, she was promoted from Associate to Senior Associate. Kat was a positive culture carrier, a standout writer, and someone who immediately impacted the office. We were lucky to have her contributions in the real-time information-gathering space.
Whether training new hires, running a project, editing her peers' writing, or offering organization improvement proposals, Kat was consistently thoughtful, organized, and proved herself to be an exceptionally capable leader. Her short-form writing and presentation skills were impeccable and I never had to worry about losing interest in something she wrote. Any organization looking to uplevel its team with an ambitious and talented leader should look no further than Kat Balleh."
Listed skills include Writing, Brand Alignment, Social Media, Internet Culture, and 49 others.
