Biography
Kathy Bonk co-founded the Communications Consortium Media Center in 1988 in Washington, DC. The mission of the Communications Consortium is to use communications strategies for policy change. Over the past 25 years, Kathy has been at the forefront of dozens of media campaigns that marked a sea change in domestic and global policies affecting women, children and families. She is the co-author of the Jossey-Bass Guide to Strategic Communications for Nonprofits, part of the Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management series.
Kathy has worked on many multi-year, issue-oriented efforts for prominent foundations. Examples of these efforts are: child welfare and early education, for the Annie E. Casey, W.K. Kellogg; population and development, for the Open Society Institute and the Hewlett, Packard and Turner Foundations; and domestic and global women’s issues, for the Ford, Robert Sterling Clark, Gerbode and Packard Foundations, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Women Donors Network. She has also directed activities under grants from scores of other foundations, including the Charles H. Revson and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She works regularly with dozens of nonprofits and public agencies from the United Nations to state and country governments helping to build effective communications programs. In 1989, Kathy was awarded a Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellowship, which enabled her to work extensively with nongovernmental organizations in Russia, the Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Previously, Kathy served as a public information officer at the U.S. Department of State, and the Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. From 1978 to 1987, she directed the Media Project for the National Organization for Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund. Kathy is on the board of Families USA, Population Connections and the Center for Law and the Public Interest and is an advisor to Ms. magazine. She lives with her husband, Marc Tucker, in Washington, DC and Brooksville, ME. |
