Katie Eukel, President/CEO
A natural strategist, Katie channels her passion into helping clients navigate tough challenges. With deep experience in cross-sectoral partnerships and issue-oriented communications, she’s especially adept at guiding public conversations, strengthening organizations, and connecting communities. Before leading Fourth Sector Consulting, Katie was the communications director at Transit for Livable Communities, a nonprofit organization working to reform Minnesota’s transportation system. Her expertise in issue framing, strategic communications, and online engagement strategies positioned the organization as a respected national leader in connecting diverse constituencies to transportation decision-making.
A graduate of Macalester College with a B.A. in Communication & Media Studies, Katie has also worked as a philanthropic communications consultant to national foundations and nonprofit organizations seeking to change America’s food system, and with PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where she helped research and produce local, national, and international news pieces. She currently lives in Minneapolis, spending much of her time helping her rescue dog, Murray, overcome his intense dislike of UPS trucks.
Connect with Katie: katie@fourthsectorconsulting.com or @KTAndrea
Bonnie Azab Powell, Editorial Projects Consultant
Bonnie is a writer, editor, blogger, and pastured-meat slinger based in Oakland, CA, near Berkeley. She manages communications projects for Fourth Sector on an ad-hoc basis: writing newsletters, case studies, and website content; editing policy papers and other strategic communications; and managing other freelance writers and designers.
A technology and business senior writer for Red Herring magazine during the dot-com boom in San Francisco, she switched her focus to sustainable food and green business reporting in 2006. She has worked as an editor for Architecture, Red Herring, Wired, and Edible San Francisco. In addition to those magazines, her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Financial Times, Grist, Meatpaper, Gastronomica, and Condé Nast Traveler. She is the founder and editor of Ethicurean.com, a 3-year-old group blog about food politics with 40,000 readers a month frequently cited in the New York Times and many other media outlets. Several years ago, this former vegetarian embarked on a quest to locate humanely raised, pastured local meat that led her to start the Bay Area Meat Community Supported Agriculture program, a farm-to-consumer meat-distribution network; she currently manages CSA programs for Clark Summit Farm and Soul Food Farm for 250+ families. An avowed geek, Bonnie uses Google Apps to manage not only the CSAs, but her entire life, and treats her iPhone like her second, more-essential brain.
Connect with Bonnie: bonnie@bonniepowell.com or @ethicurean