Kate Isenberg
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Experience

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Cartooning and 2D animation
The New Yorker magazine
The New Republic magazine
Alta Journal
Air Mail magazine

Narrative magazine
Graverobber Productions


Teaching
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (graduate-level digital animation and postproduction sound)
California College of the Arts (undergraduate-level digital animation and postproduction sound)


Editorial consulting
Ternary (copywriting, SEO strategy)
Datavant (copyediting, proofreading)
Dropbox (copyediting, proofreading)
Consumer Financial Service Corporation (copywriting, proofreading)
Design Dept. (copywriting, copyediting, proofreading)
Mercer Advisors (copyediting, proofreading)

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (copyediting, proofreading)
Eleven Inc. (proofreading)
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Wise World Prep higher-education consultants (essay consulting)
Mother Jones magazine (reporting, editing)
The New Republic magazine (reporting, line editing, copyediting, proofreading)
The San Francisco Bay Guardian (reporting, copyediting)
The Believer magazine (copyediting)
The American Prospect
 magazine (copyediting)

Volunteering
El Cerrito High School college essay consulting, focusing on first-generation applicants
​Harvardwood feature film and TV script coverage


Find me on LinkedIn, where you can read recommendations of my work from current and previous employers. 

Degrees
Harvard University — BA English, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, John Harvard Scholar (4 years)
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television — MFA Animation

Supplementary coursework 
Rhode Island School of Design (digital and traditional illustration)
UC Berkeley (portraiture, copyediting, figure drawing for anatomy)

California College of Art (illustration and freelance business practices)
San Francisco State University (2D digital animation)
Stanford University (fiction writing)


Software skills (advanced)
Pro Tools
Photoshop 
TVPaint
Premiere
Office

​Google Cloud apps
Slack


Software skills (fundamentals)
​After Effects
Animate​
Illustrator
Flix
Final Cut Pro
​Final Draft
SketchUp
Toonboom
Jira
Canva
​WordPress
Creative skills
Writing (scripts, grants, fiction, organizational communications, personal statements)
Content strategy (B2B and B2C marketing, SEO)
Editing (line editing, copyediting, proofreading
)
​Fact-checking
Illustration
Cartooning
Life drawing
​Comics
Watercolor
Colored Pencil
Line drawing
Music composition, arranging, and performance
Music theory

Film and podcast sound design and editing
Dialogue editing

Teaching areas
Traditional animation principles
2D digital animation
Story development
Storyboarding
Directing for animation
​Audio recording

Sound design and dialogue editing
Postproduction audio
​Figure drawing
Essay writing and revision
Grant writing
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  • About
    • Biography
    • Experience
    • Press
  • Cartoons & Comics
    • Editorial Cartoons
    • Stewball Comics
  • Animation
    • Short Films
    • Sound Design
  • Contact
  • Instagram