Kallee is an avid supporter of the performing arts and nonprofit sectors across Canada. She has held management roles at the Dancer Transition Resource Centre, Imagine Canada and Dance Media Group. After a decade of working in the Toronto arts community, she recently returned to her home region of BC to support community cultural development as Executive Director of the West Kootenay Regional Arts Council.
Kallee is a board member with the Dance West Network and volunteers in support of the national arts research network Mass Culture. She is a past board chair of Dance Umbrella of Ontario. Throughout her work in the cultural sector, Kallee has developed a passion for systems-level change and advocating for stronger arts policy.
Recognizing that many arts organizations have undergone extensive change in recent years, Kallee now provides consulting services to small nonprofits with a focus on communications development, operational planning, and digital adaptation. Her approach to working with organizations is grounded in principles of design thinking. She is a big believer in the power of experimentation, iteration, and constant learning.
Kallee started her career as a one-woman communications department in a small arts nonprofit and knows what it feels like to juggle email, social media, digital ads and more. She relied on Google to teach herself the ins and outs of digital platforms; she’s thrilled to see high-quality resources like ArtsBoost courses on the market to support a new generation of arts marketer.
Through her participation in ArtsBoost, she hopes to empower arts administrators to find their own style of communicating online and to have fun exploring the powerful tools available to them.
Kallee holds an MA in Theatre & Performance Studies from York University. To learn more about her work, find her on LinkedIn or thrivebydesign.net.