Katie Newport

Katie sits on Blue State’s executive team and helps lead our Content & Campaigns, Creative Director, Design, and Video teams. Since joining Blue State in 2012, Katie’s skills in storytelling, creative direction, and audience engagement have activated people via site, social, email, SMS, and ad content. She’s played a key role in Blue State partnerships with Howard University, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, NMDP (Be The Match), and Special Olympics International.

Before joining Blue State, Katie was a copywriter at Pidalia, a Boston-based digital agency, held similar roles at UMass Dartmouth and The Lloyd Center for the Environment, and spent more than a decade in hospitality.

Katie has an M.A. in Professional Writing and is passionate about animal rescue (specifically her two rescued pugs), home baking, and cultivating a gardener’s green thumb.