Kathy began her professional career by attending and graduating from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1988. While attending college Kathy interned for the Arts Students League of Denver, Metropolitan Denver Arts Alliance, Denver Partnership, and post graduation worked for KCNC News4.

In 1989, Kathy was hired by and proudly worked for Joe Bullard, formerly managing editor of the Denver Post, and Tony Campbell, former managing editor of the Rocky Mountain News, as Production Manager for one of Denver’s first and only publication design firms at the time, Publication Design, Inc. Her role was production and scheduling of several weekly publications in the cable news trade industry, and head of a department of five designers. She worked alongside some of Denver’s best writers, editors and photographers from Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, and the Denver and Boulder Business Journals.

In 1995, Kathy’s career path took her to the Western Slope of the Gunnison Valley and the towns of Crested Butte and Gunnison, Colorado. She worked as Prepress Department Manager and Graphic Designer for two printing companies in the Valley — Crested Butte Printing with Jeff Neumann, 1995–1998, and B&B Printers with Jim Stanley and the Stanley family, 2007–2015.

From 1998 on, Kathy in tandem, operated her own design business and designed and produced the Crested Butte Magazine alongside Sandy Fails for over ten years, working with local writers, photographers and editors in the Valley. Kathy also worked for the Crested Butte Weekly with Mark and Dianne Reaman and was the signature designer for Crested Butte Center for the Arts working with Pat Crow and Jenny Birnie from 1998–2019, and lead designer for Western Horizon Resorts with Pamela Frenette from 1998–2021.

Kathy has been an artist since she could hold a crayon, with local and national recognition of her artwork, her passion to create persists.

She currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, offering businesses her publication design and printing expertise.