About IWMF: Staff
Kathleen Currie
Deputy Director
Kathleen Currie is deputy director of the International Women’s Media Foundation. She is responsible for overseeing the organization’s strategic communications, including publications and public information campaigns. In addition, she works with the IWMF’s board of directors on governance issues.
Currie joined the IWMF in 2000. Prior to that, she was managing editor of the Foreign Service Journal, a monthly magazine that covers the U.S. foreign affairs agencies. From 1992 - 1993, she was special assistant to the American ambassador to Kazakhstan. Part of her responsibility was following the development of independent media and women’s groups in that country. From 1989 – 1991, she was editor in chief of Words by Wire, a syndicate that sold feature articles, editorials and columns to major newspapers in the United States and Canada.
Her freelance articles have appeared in the Washington Monthly, Washington Weekly, Irish Press, and other publications, and she has done freelance radio reporting for Voice of America.
Currie is also an oral historian. Among other projects, she was an interviewer for the Washington Press Club’s award-winning oral history project on women journalists.
She has also consulted to a number of non-profit organizations, including the Overseas Development Council, EMILY’s List and Women’s Legal Defense Fund.
Currie holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Santa Clara University and a master’s degree in writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She has served on the board of directors of Washington Independent Writers, a Washington, DC-based organization that supports freelance writers. She received fellowships in 2004 and 2005 from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She speaks Russian.