... is a consultant to many businesses and organizations in the field of information design. She is a trainer and Associate of The Grove Consutlants, internationally known for their work in this field. She has supported DFA’s work in group and team coaching and facilitation of shared visioning/strategic planning for the last 10 years. She has also worked for such companies as Hewlett Packard, Texaco/Chevron, the U.S. Mint, Green Mountain Coffee, and Capital One. Her clients have also included many government and non-profit organizations: The Tides Foundation, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Institute for the Future, the Carnegie Foundation, The Magic Theatre, United Way, California Poets in the Schools, the Hass Foundation, The Stupsky Foundation, the United Religions Initiative, and the City of Oakland. She has been brought in to many school strategy sessions around the country, and is currently at work on a project with Monterey County Farms To School Program.

Kathy is also a teacher and a poet. She has taught writing workshops to children and adults of all ages through The California-in-the-Schools program and Writer’s Corps. She was an instructor of Creative Writing at the College of Marin for seven years and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco, teaching expository writing. She currently teaches incarcerated youth at Marin County Juvenile Hall. Her artistic ability has received wide recognition. She has received several California Arts Council grants and was an artist in residence for a year at The Headlands Center for the Arts. In the summer of 2004 she received a scholarship to the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Her work has appeared in The Americas Review, The Alaska Poetry Review, The Southern Poetry Review, California Quarterly, The San Jose Mercury News, the Pacific Sun, Oberon, Americas Review, Dialogue, and Yellow Silk. Her books of poetry include: Imagination Comes to Breakfast, As the Heart Is Held. Her newest book, Hunger and Sorrow, was selected out of 331 entries, to be released by Small Press Poetry in the Spring of 2005.