kate gardner
Kate Gardner is an artist, writer and designer.
Ten days after 9/11, Kate launched the Community Theatre Internationale. She produced and directed: A Happening (2001-2002), which brought New Yorkers together to play across the lines of social and racial segregation; and BrooKenya! (2002-2005), an intercontinental grassroots soap opera with 150 residents in Brooklyn, USA and Kisumu, Kenya and a web of kinship that saved lives during the 2008 Kenyan crisis.
Kate created a sequential art piece about BrooKenya! for an exhibit at the Brooklyn Central Library. Her first picture story for adults, Cara Mia: One Last Time, imagines the moment between dying and not dying.
As Senior Vice-President and Director of Special Projects at award-winning Tillett Lighting Design Inc., Kate is helping to develop design paradigms for public space that are user- and planet-friendly.
Ms. Gardner has consulted and guest taught at Brandeis University and is a contributor to an upcoming anthology on performance and peacebuilding sponsored by their Coexistence International program. She has presented and led workshops for: First Latin American Conference on Education-Entertainment for Social Change (Mexico); International Peace Researchers Association (Canada); International Community Theatre Festival (Netherlands); International Center for Tolerance Education (USA); Greenridge Secondary School (Singapore); Integrated Community Health Services (Kenya); Youth Channel (USA); and Brooklyn Central Library (USA).
As Senior Associate at Intersource International, Kate previously conducted complex international and domestic investigations for Fortune 100 companies and major law firms.
Kate has led various social change campaigns, including: a winning citizen’s initiative to give independent candidates fair access to the electoral process; an international effort to support democratic leadership in Zaire (Congo); and a drive that opened blue-collar trades to men of color and women in the US.
Ms. Gardner resides in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.