Kathryn Shehade

Chief Communications Officer at The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

As the Chief Communications Officer, Kathryn is responsible for driving DRK’s communications strategy, developing media relationships and strengthening the broad DRK community of entrepreneurs, donors, community partners, stakeholders and thought leaders with effective content that enables greater impact.

Kathryn has worked in the television industry as both a publicist and a producer for over 25 years. She most recently served as Director of Communications and Community for the NBC and Telemundo Boston stations since launching in 2016. During her time at NBC10 Boston, NECN, Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra and NBC Sports Boston, Kathryn developed critical community partnerships, nurtured key media relationships, assembled the stations’ external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) council, and led campaign initiatives such as Supporting Our Schools, Clear The Shelters, Project Innovation and Bundle Up New England that raised over $2 million in community funding. She formed and nurtured community partners with The American Red Cross, Boston Children’s Hospital, King Boston, Boston Pride, and more. Kathryn also developed, created and was Executive Producer of “This is New England,” NBC10 Boston’s (WBTS) weekly community affairs program airing Sunday mornings, produced from inside the NBCUniversal Boston Media Center in Needham, MA.

She is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Political Science and a minor in Sociology.


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