Kathleen Sweeney

Kathleen Sweeney, a multimedia writer, artist and activist, explores the intersections of green movements, girl culture, innovation, social media and mindfulness. The author of Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age, she has published on viral media, digital technology, GIF culture, crowdfunding, and women filmmakers. Her most recent article is Digital Mindfulness.

With an extensive international video art and photography exhibition record, she has served as artist-in-residence at Reel Girls and Dia:Beacon, and has been funded by the Ford Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts, including a six-week fellowship in social media at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2013. An Assistant Professor at The New York School, New York, where she founded The Viral Media Lab archive, she has served on the Advisory Boards of GirlsWriteNow, Reel Grrls, Feminist.com, SheWrites. Original courses include Girl Innovators; Writing the Green City; Hero(ine)s and Beyond iCelebrities.

A communications consultant to authors, artists, filmmakers, think tanks, and non-profits on storytelling DNA, she produces web docs, book trailers, outreach and social media campaigns. Recent projects include communications and social media producer for Helen Whitney’s PBS documentary “Into the Night,” crowdfunding and social media producer for “The Last Dalai Lama?” and the #StreetLovingKindness series with Sharon Salzberg. She has been quoted in The New Yorker, Gannett News and other publications.

Her areas of specialty include mindfulness and digital culture; the neuroscience of awe; social media and fake news; teenage girl innovators; and pop culture changemakers.

Check out her website www.wordcitystudio.com

And follow her on Instagram @kathleensweeney