Kate Lapides-Black is a longtime professional visual journalist and photography educator with a focus on humanitarian issues with twenty years of contract work for numerous non-governmental organizations, including Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee and ReSurge International in Africa, Central and South America, and rural and indigenous communities in the U.S.

For the past ten years, Lapides-Black has deepened work in marketing and communications courtesy of staff positions with several Colorado-based non-profits. Specialties include content development and strategy, photography, graphic and web design, video editing and production, and editorial work. Kate is currently engaged in all these creative hats as the director of communications and development for ‘For the Good’, a non-profit partnering with remote Maasai communities in Kenya to address barriers to girls’ education.