Katie (M.K.) Rainey
Director, Communications
Focus: Narrative Building
Katie (M.K.) Rainey (she/her) serves as the Director for Communications with a focus on narrative building. In this role, she leads to a portfolio of projects which develop a trust with the organization’s constituents through communications & storytelling and engaging the passionate stakeholders across the organization’s many projects and platforms.
Katie is a writer, teacher, and editor from Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the winner of the 2017 Bechtel Prize at Teachers & Writers Magazine, the 2017 Lazuli Literary Group Writing Contest and the 2018 Montana Award for Fiction from Whitefish Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, The Collagist, 3AM Magazine, and more.
She currently serves as a Co-Executive Director of the Teaching Artists Guild (TAG) and Project Manager of the International Teaching Artist Collaborative’s EDEN Project.
Previously she served as the Director of Community-Word Project’s Teaching Artist Project (TAP) and has been a teaching artist for over 10 years. Katie also works as a freelance media artist and has worked on numerous commercials, book trailers, podcasts, sizzle reels, and more. You can see more of her work here: mk-rainey.com.
She lives in Arkansas with her dogs. Sometimes she writes things the dogs like.
Location: Little Rock, AR, USA