Kate Duva O'Rourke
she/they
she/they
Welcome! I'm so glad you're here.
I was born and raised in Shikaakwa, so-called Chicago, and now live on unceded Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui lands - so-called Tucson, Arizona.
I've been writing, facilitating, and co-designing dynamic learning, leadership, and therapeutic programs with people of all ages and abilities for over 15 years. My work is inspired by somatics, the power of storytelling, the science of neuroplasticity, popular education (by the people, for the people), and lifelong learning in diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and transformative justice.
I've held many roles - community organizer, bilingual special educator, adult educator, team manager, coach/mentor, circle keeper, developmental therapist, domestic worker, and caregiver. The greatest joy of my career so far was founding a multilingual, transdisciplinary social program, and working with institutional and community partners to co-design it and build it from the ground up. I'm also a published writer, interviewer, and public speaker.
I love to get creative and help people learn, grow, and make meaningful, measurable changes. My passion: building critical connections to empower people to learn from and with one another.
I take an ethical, human-centered approach to learning - and center equity and accessibility in my technology use. I love creating content with Articulate Storyline, Rise, and Camtasia, and I'm currently upskilling with Adobe Creative Suite and other design and authoring tools.
This is an old site and my work has a new home - check out prosocialxd.com, or go straight to my portfolio.
I was born and raised in Shikaakwa, so-called Chicago, and now live on unceded Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui lands - so-called Tucson, Arizona.
I've been writing, facilitating, and co-designing dynamic learning, leadership, and therapeutic programs with people of all ages and abilities for over 15 years. My work is inspired by somatics, the power of storytelling, the science of neuroplasticity, popular education (by the people, for the people), and lifelong learning in diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and transformative justice.
I've held many roles - community organizer, bilingual special educator, adult educator, team manager, coach/mentor, circle keeper, developmental therapist, domestic worker, and caregiver. The greatest joy of my career so far was founding a multilingual, transdisciplinary social program, and working with institutional and community partners to co-design it and build it from the ground up. I'm also a published writer, interviewer, and public speaker.
I love to get creative and help people learn, grow, and make meaningful, measurable changes. My passion: building critical connections to empower people to learn from and with one another.
I take an ethical, human-centered approach to learning - and center equity and accessibility in my technology use. I love creating content with Articulate Storyline, Rise, and Camtasia, and I'm currently upskilling with Adobe Creative Suite and other design and authoring tools.
This is an old site and my work has a new home - check out prosocialxd.com, or go straight to my portfolio.
I operate from the awareness that we are living in turbulent times. Life is short, and we have precious little time to waste on meaningless work. Earth is changing so fast, it's hard to wrap our minds around it. Human health is not what it used to be. And society is undergoing seismic shifts.
More than ever, we need to practice authenticity and humility. We need to be creative, collaborative, agile, and open to emergent strategy. Let's make space to reflect together. To design a more sustainable world. And to build it, one small act at a time.
More than ever, we need to practice authenticity and humility. We need to be creative, collaborative, agile, and open to emergent strategy. Let's make space to reflect together. To design a more sustainable world. And to build it, one small act at a time.
Kate Duva O'Rourke (she/they)
Instructional Designer ⟡ Facilitator ⟡ Writer ⟡ Community Organizer
MFA in Creative Writing ⟡ Columbia College Follett Merit Award
MA in Special Education ⟡ Intergenerational Education, Developmental Therapy, Assistive Technology & Sensory Integration
Restorative Justice Circle Keeper trained at CJYI, TRHT, Amplify RJ
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