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Forever important to ALBB is informing you, the reader, community, and outside the community who also love Beacon in an easy and accessible way. A website producer for 20 years, Katie majored in Communications in Media Studies, and one class shy of a minor in Creative Writing from the College of Charleston (SC). Her favorite class was Ethics in Communication.

The dream was to to work in magazines, but there wasn’t enough money in that to afford her NYC apartment. So she worked for a national nonprofit specializing in evidence-based maternity care, where she designed and managed their website and donor database. Taking fashion drawing classes at night at FIT, she also began blogging. Blending visual and written storytelling was always a match for her.

Katie started blogging before Google went public, on their platform Blogger. She even helped the nonprofit install a Google Search Server onto their very large and resourceful content website. That’s why you find ALBB everywhere in Google. She knows how to weave her creative writing with SEO and website analytics. It’s a special combination of an art.

We accept $5, and $1,000, and everywhere in between and above. We already have some $5 monthly supporters, and honestly, those contributors mean so much to us because they wanted to commit just that much - anything - to powering the information they are reading. And now watching, now that we have brought video into the mix.

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