Kate O'Connor Morris is a Creative leader based out of her hometown, Brooklyn, NY. She published her first poetry at the age of nineteen, and her prose essay "Forgotten Brooklyn" is taught widely as a standard for creative journalism.
In 2013 Harley Davidson handed Kate a motorcycle and a lofty assignment: ride cross-country and reimagine the road trip. She infiltrated outlaw motorcycle groups, slept in ditches, crossed the United States with one pair of pants and no tent, and produced a few campaigns, Lost Road, She Rides a Harley, and Live Your Legend. Much of this body of work over a 4 year period was honored in the Harley Davidson Museum's cultural exhibitions.
Her film 21 Days Under the Sky was produced by Fox Searchlight. Released in 2016 as a Netflix Original, it has since become the most watched motorcycle film of its time, translated into 13 languages and screened globally. Presently, it is on Delta and United Airlines, and available on Amazon Prime Video. During her time at Fox Searchlight, she also sat on the development teams that sold in Ozark and The Great.
Her commercial clients include the National Parks Service, GAP, Triumph Motors, Mattel, Warby Parker, Amazon, TOMs and more.
For 6 years, years Kate directed Creative efforts for Vimeo’s Branded Content & Production teams. She also led Sustainability efforts for Vimeo and sold in the first major strategy to the Executive Board. Reporting in to the VP of Global Creative, Kate scaled the brand team from a two-person army to a 15 person award-winning team. Her team’s award-winning Stories in Place and Small Business series were a significant part of leadership’s positioning for a $4BN valuation when Vimeo IPOed with NASDAQ in 2021.
As the Creative Director for the Newsette’s brand agency, Newland, Kate sat at the helm of Amazon, NFL, and Mattel’s media and social accounts. Kicking off multi-million dollar campaigns for Black-owned Businesses on Amazon (Small Business) with Snoop Dogg, Ayesha Curry, and more.
She was a finalist for Sundance 2023 Screen Lab.
She spends her downtime with her husband, two young children, and two street dogs.