Katie specializes in helping create publications that communicate a clear, engaging story through words and images. For the past 12 years, her primary focus has been transportation research, planning and engineering publications for consultants, industry organizations, and local, state, and federal agencies. Katie helps authors develop messaging that will resonate with our clients’ target audiences and guides outlining and storyboarding efforts using that messaging as a framework. She synthesizes the work of multiple authors into a consistent voice and edits for conciseness, clarity, and accuracy. As a designer, she helps identify where illustrations could enhance a reader’s understanding and creates visually-compelling infographics and reader-friendly layouts. Katie leads Kittelson’s in-house editing group.