Senior Director, National Project Management, WETA

Kate Kelly

In WETA National Productions, Kate manages processes throughout project life cycles for several key clients and accounts in the national production portfolio, including Florentine Films, Inkwell Media/McGee Media, the Well Beings health campaign, and others. On various projects, Kate provides editorial development, input and oversight; manages budgeting, proposals and funder relations; leads inter-organizational project teams; oversees project reporting; and assesses new business opportunities. Before WETA National Productions, Kate led communications campaigns for national productions as part of WETA Communications. Since joining WETA in 2005, Kate has worked on more than 100 national public media projects, running the gamut of programming genres, from health, news and public affairs, to history, culture and performance — many of them award-winning projects and top-rated documentaries and series on PBS. Project partners have included The Library of Congress, First Amendment Center, Latino Public Broadcasting and The White House. Kate is also a founding member of the WETA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council, helping the organization design and implement a process, with staff input, to identify, analyze and act on short- and long-term organizational DEI priorities. Since 2013, Kate has also served on the all-volunteer Board of Governors for the Capital Emmys — the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS-NCCB) — currently as Second Vice President and Finance Committee Chair for the non-profit, professional organization serving the television community of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., fostering creative leadership in the television industry, and encouraging artistic, educational and cultural excellence.

Prior to WETA, Kate was with Peace Corps El Salvador, leading community programs focused on health, women and youth with local, national and international groups. Project partners included USAID, CARE, Project Concern International (PCI), FISDL (Fondo de Inversión Social para el Desarrollo Local), FUNPROCOOP (Fundación Promotora de Cooperativa), JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency), Plan Trifinio, and MAG-PAES (Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería - Programa Ambiental de El Salvador). Early in her career, Kate also worked with The Walt Disney Company, The Jim Henson Company, the Directors Guild of America, and the Boston Society of Architects. Kate is a graduate of Emerson College, with further education and training with Leadership Greater Washington; Johns Hopkins University, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); and the Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS).