A year-long adventure in the developing world has given Kathleen fresh enthusiasm for helping organizations further their missions through story. An award-winning, internationally published writer, Kathleen has been finding and telling compelling stories for more than 25 years.

She develops and implements communications strategies for nonprofit organizations and writes feature articles for magazines, newspapers and online media. She has written the history of a furniture supply company in North Carolina and co-written a book about the legal profession in that state.

Recently, Kathleen served as a pro-bono communications consultant for a conservation and community development organization in Mozambique. During her travels, she also volunteered to teach English to schoolchildren in Peru and to Burmese refugees in Thailand. In the United States, she has taught composition, journalism and creative writing at the university level.

Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Travel Section, The New Republic, local and regional newspapers, alumni magazines, personal finance publications, airline magazines and elsewhere. Her communications work has served such organizations as the John Rex Endowment, EmPOWERment, Inc., the Strowd Roses Foundation, American Baptist Homes of the West and the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries.

Kathleen earned her M.F.A in creative writing from Louisiana State University and her bachelor’s in English from Cornell University. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A chronicle of her travels is still unfolding at allthewideworld.blogspot.com.

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