Kay Gallagher

About Kay Gallagher

Over 25 years experience in communication strategy and project management with Westat working mostly on projects for the US Department of Education. I am also a SXSW EDU Advisory board member. Specialties: Project management, website development, content management, communities of practice, collaboration and communications, conference management, branding, creative management, art direction, and video production.

Experience

1. Communications Specialist

   Westat

   Oct 2006 — Present

   Currently I am working on many projects at Westat including work for the US Department of Education. I lead the Communication and Dissemination tasks for the National Comprehensive Center, Compcenternetwork.org. This project is multi-year cooperative agreements that impact all states and outlying areas to improve education for all students. Previous ED projects include: IDEA Data Center, Teacher Incentive Fud (TIF) 3 and TIF 4, I3 - Investing in Innovation, Race to the Top, Teacher Quality. For all my projects I lead the communications strategies and social media activities. I also worked with Agency for Health Care Research and Quality on Health Care Innovations Exchange as a producer for their video series featuring Health Care Innovators on the frontline. Past projects include the Teacher to Teacher Initiative for the US Department of Education. I organized the 72 live workshops and multiple online courses associated with this initiative for 5 years.

Education

• Boston University

  BS, Communications

  1980 — 1984