About

Hi, I’m Katie.

Three things are pretty apparent when you meet me: I’m short, I smile a lot, and I have opinions about a wide variety of topics.

Some topics tend to pop up more than others, such as music, social media, digital marketing, and why there is NEVER a bad time for chocolate.  Others, like my insane passion for travel, my love of rock climbing, or my old sports car surface less frequently.

As mentioned in my first post, I’ve been blogging (privately, for the most part) for almost a decade and figured that it was high time to bring my opinions back into the public sphere.

Here’s the necessary disclaimer bit:

This blog expresses my personal opinions and not the opinions of anyone else… unless they’re being interviewed or I’m summarizing something they said – then it does.  I welcome comments and discussions, though do reserve the right to remove offensive or inflammatory comments if necessary.

My blog may come across as slightly sarcastic at times. That’s because I’m slightly sarcastic at times. Again, this is me, not my employer, my family, my friends or my favorite cactus talking.

Bio

Professional Stuff

Katie started her career at a B2B telecommunications company, working with the business development and field marketing teams to create and execute regional and national marketing campaigns. She fulfilled a life-long dream and moved to New York City in 2009, transitioning her role from pure direct marketing to marketing communications with a dash of social media. She’s worked with clients such as Radian6, Drum and Bass Arena (AEI London), American Express and Facebook since then, both while freelancing and while working at an interactive agency. She decided to finally combine her passions for music and marketing earlier this year when she moved to Billboard to become their Social Media Manager, putting her 12+ years of experience as a community moderator and manager, as well as marketing strategist for musicians and promotions head for a democratic dubstep label (Pressing Issues) to good use.

Personal Stuff

Katie has been a musician since she was 5 – starting with the violin, then moving on to percussion (a 6th grade male friend told her that ‘girls can’t play drums – drums are a guy instrument’… oh, the mistake he made!). She was part of an all-female Drum n Bass DJ crew while in college and lived in Bristol in 2004-5 where she fell head over heels in love with dubstep, as well as England.

She spends her free time traveling (Jamaica is coming up next!), volunteering at Dog Habitat Rescue, fostering dogs for the same organization, cooking, baking, brunching, working out, doing yoga and reading. She has a penchant for sky-high heels in fun colors, is still amazed by the city she lives in, and calls the pretty, brownstone-filled part of Brooklyn home.