Kate Harrington
A native New Englander, Kate moved to Austin in 2002 to attend graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where she got her master’s degree in journalism. She spent several years as a reporter with the Austin Business Journal, where she covered health care, development and real estate.
Kate now runs Thumbtack Communications, where she provides ghostwriting, copywriting, social media strategy and PR in addition to writing bylined articles. She lives in Central Austin with her husband, son, and two cranky cats. When she’s not writing, she’s playing guitar, gardening or hiking.
The Brush is Mighty
It’s not unusual for visitors setting foot inside the Rothko Chapel for the first time to have a strong reaction to the space. The...
Meet Kate Harrington, the OutReach Editor
Austin may be a small city, but it’s full of talent, generosity, curiosity and a shared desire to make Central Texas a great place...
Skin Deep
Evette Richards and Levi Dugat have each worked jobs that left them feeling unhappy and depleted at the end of the day. So when...
A Helping Hand
Necessity is the mother of invention, the saying goes, and in the case of AssistHers, it was necessity plus compassion that formed the organization.
The...
Everything’s Bigger in Texas
In Dallas during the 1980s, it wasn’t uncommon for the city’s police officers to monitor who was going in and out of gay bars,...
Retail as Theatre
Donald Fowler has learned that when life puts a door in front of you, you’d better walk through it. Doing just that led him...
Eye of the Beholder
As the CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), Jonathan Glus oversees an organization that supports and promotes the arts in Houston through a...
Putting on the Ritz
Greg Haynes Johnson may not have seemed a likely fit for the board of the Dallas chapter of Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA)....
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