Kasie Coccaro Email & Phone Number

Experience utilizing technology to inspire, educate, and create solutions to some of our biggest challenges. Currently, head of the National Geographic Society Exploration Technology Lab, overseeing the development and deployment of research and storytelling technologies that facilitate access and yield critical insights into some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Prior to her current role, Kasie Coccaro directed digital technology portfolios across National Geographic, from Product Manager of the National Geographic Magazine’s digital edition to serving as the Deputy Director for a portfolio of remote sensing, citizen science, and conservation technology programs. Before joining National Geographic, Kasie worked in the White House as a political appointee in the Obama Administration, serving as the Deputy Director of White House Digital Programs in the first-ever White House Office of Digital Strategy. Here, for the first time, White House digital efforts became an innovative digital content machine, meeting people where they are, from Tumblr to Twitter and nearly every virtual avenue in between. Here, Kasie created new ways of harnessing multidirectional streams of content that allowed the Obama Administration to have a productive dialogue with digital audiences on the issues they cared about the most.Prior to joining the Office of Digital Strategy, Kasie worked in digital products at the Center for American Progress, a D.C based policy institute. Previously, she was the lead graphic designer for the Department of Local Government and Regional Development of Western Australia.

Listed skills include Project Management, Online Communications, Strategic Communications, Public Policy, and 14 others.

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  Elon University

  Public Administration