Kate Livie, Founder & Head Creative at Alosa Communications
Name: Kate Livie
Name of Business: Alosa Communications
Job Title: Founder & Head Creative
Briefly Describe Your Business: Alosa Communications is a woman-owned, Chestertown-based digital media business providing writing, design, photography, social media, and website services to nonprofits, small businesses, and artists.
What Makes Your Business Unique/Sets You Apart? Before I started Alosa Communications, I had worked for almost 10 years as the director of education & associate curator at a regional museum, and had a healthy side hustle freelance writing for regional publications. As part of my job, I wrote and designed e-news, press releases, and feature articles, worked with photographers, crafted social media campaigns, and built websites. Eventually, people started to ask if I could do that kind of work for them. I always assumed I'd continue to follow my career path in non-profits, but over time, my side hustle grew so much it was clear in 2018 I could hang my own shingle. I've never looked back. Taking all of that experience and bringing it home to support local businesses has been amazing. In the past two years, I've worked as a "communications department for hire" with sculptors and environmental non-profits, family foundations and bakeries, artists, oyster shuckers, and colleges. I've deepened my connections within my own Kent County community, and have have had so much fun telling the unique story of each client in words and images. Every day I tackle a different creative challenge, whether it's a logo, or a photo shoot, or crafting language for a website. All of this in a place—Kent County—that I love so much. I feel pretty lucky.
Websites designed by Kate at Alosa Communications
Why Did You Join The Chamber? I joined because I see Sam Shoge as a catalyst for change. I think he can help make the Chamber a place that is welcoming to a woman-owned creative business, and provide opportunities for me to learn, and to strengthen my relationships within the County's business community. Sam reached out to me personally to encourage me to join and listened to my feedback about what I hoped to gain from joining the Chamber. I think that kind of personal leadership is important, and it inspired me to explore Chamber membership.
What Do You Like About The Kent County Community? I am a Kent County native, and I am one of the younger professional set that left and came back, to reconnect with my roots and to build my life and career in a place and a community I love. Being a "from here" has had a tremendous impact on my life as an adult—it inspires me as a writer, it's what I teach as a Chesapeake Studies professor at Washington College, it's who I married (my husband, Ben, is from Talbot County, so he's a foreigner but he loves Kent County too). Now it's also the subject of my career and focus of my business. A sense of place infuses all aspects of my life, and it's all because of growing up in Kent County. I am forever grateful.
What Do You Like About Doing Business In And Around Kent County? I love that the people I work for are the people I see at Evergrain (or in one case, actually ARE Evergrain...I built their website), at First Friday, run into on the trails at Eastern Neck, buy cheese and wine from, see at the Farmer's Market. My clients ARE my community. I couldn't say that in a big city.
Is There Anything Else You Want Members To Know About Your Business? If you've got a communications project, I've got a creative solution. I am looking forward to telling the story of more Kent County businesses, so please reach out if you need support. I can't wait to hear more.
Logos designed by Kate at Alosa Communications
Where Can People Find More Information About You? www.alosacommunications.com, https://www.facebook.com/alosacommunications
Where Can People Reach You?: quitebrackish@gmail.com | 410-708-6232
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