Kate Cunningham is a multimedia communication manager with a successful track record of leading news and information organizations that create public facing content for printed, online, video and social channels. As a former journalist committed to accuracy, strong grammar and proper style, Kate brings knowledge of the communication industry to her work managing and teaching other storytellers.

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Since 2011, Kate has taught at the University of New Mexico, helping students learn writing and editing, video production, digital design and more. She loves to work with students to help them discover and publish the interesting stories in our community. Kate also is interested in instructional design, e-learning development and the best ways to transfer knowledge in virtual settings.

Beyond the classroom, Kate created and oversees an internship program with an NSF-funded project at UNM that champions women and minority STEM faculty. Interns in the program learn video shooting and editing skills, web publishing, graphic design and social media management. Graduates of the program have gone on to work in communications at NASA, to help produce local news shows, and to graduate degrees in STEM fields. NSF reviewers who visited the program at UNM cited it as a national model. Read more here.

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Knowing how to effectively and professionally use digital publishing tools such as WordPress, Adobe Creative Cloud products and others is key to success in the workplace. Kate believes in helping others learn and try out a variety of platforms. To that end, Kate also enjoys trying out new tech, from 360 degree cameras to live streaming platforms and video editing apps. Kate wrote about the importance of iteration and agility in digital communication education programs in this article for the journal Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication.

In 2015, Kate taught UNM’s first mobile reporting class, an elective course in the Communication and Journalism Department and the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media program. Students in the course used iPad minis to shoot and edit video at a time when this was an emerging trend. In spring 2016, Kate made this video about the mobile reporting class as a way to showcase student work. 

Kate also has worked with students at university news outlets including the New Mexico News Port, where she experimented with the best ways for student leaders to work with classmates to produce and publish stories. This video showcases the interns she worked with at that grant-funded project.