Kellie Artis

About Kellie Artis

Kellie Artis is a Director of Communications at MissionWise, a company that partners with educational institutions and other stakeholders to support military-connected students. Working with two startups focused on serving military and veteran families during specific lifecycle points (relocation and higher education), she has carved out a niche for herself in content marketing, digital community building, and virtual event production — specializing in engaging hard-to-reach veteran and military spouse audiences.Artis has almost two decades of communications, marketing, content marketing and development experience. As a Professional Certified Marketer (PCM), she leads the content development and implementation of MissionWise\'s marketing and expansion strategy across multiple digital platforms. She is also a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher. Using the enneagram of personality, she leads trainings, workshops and individuals on a journey to help people navigate self-discovery and awareness. She is passionate about advocating for veteran and active-duty families and has served two terms as an Advisory Board Member for the Military Family Advisory Network. She currently serves on the executive board of a local arts nonprofit, Sweet Tea Shakespeare.

Experience

1. Director of Communications

   MissionWise

   Nov 2020 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   MissionWise empowers colleges and universities to increase enrollment, completion and career readiness of students who are active-duty military, veterans, or military family members. We provide a scalable, financially self-sustaining approach to meeting the unique needs of this important and high-potential student population. Learn more at MissionWise.co. • Responsible for content development on all digital properties (website, socials), email campaigns & newsletter, presentations, and print creative assets for MissionWise, as well as implementation of content aspects of our marketing and expansion strategy. Oversee a contract writer for implementation of blog strategy for MissionWise and partner university content. • Maintain a robust virtual event schedule, executed across multiple platforms, for students at ourpartner university. Hosted 31 events in 2022, engaging around 80% of the enrolled student veteranpopulation. • Envisioned and hired a team to build a custom, white-label events platform housing syndicated virtual events for future partner universities serving military audiences. Responsible for episode planning, sourcing guests, hosting the interview, creating graphic design and show elements, producing the show, and repurposing the interviews afterwards. • Manage the student veteran population at our partner university through digital community efforts (newsletter, Facebook Group, and other communications).

Education

• College of Charleston

  B.A, Corporate Communication; PR/Marketing

  2000 — 2004

• The Narrative Enneagram

  Enneagram Professional Training Program, Psychology