about

Kendra Bozarth is a narrative strategist and communications practitioner with nearly 15 years of cross-disciplinary experience. She works with progressive leaders, organizations, and campaigns at the intersection of power, race, and the economy, building the narrative infrastructure behind their most important public work.

Her practice spans institutional communications, executive ghostwriting and editorial strategy, thought leadership development, advocacy and movement communications, and program design. Writing toward what’s possible, she collaborates with people who believe in collective liberation and have something to say about it.

core offerings

KB Comms works with progressive organizations, movement groups, and public figures on a project and retainer basis. Current offerings include:

• Writing and editing: from executive ghostwriting and earned media to tight copy and editorial polish, across formats and issue areas

• Narrative strategy: the throughline storytelling arc that holds an idea or body of work together at every scale

• Vision and voice development: a foundation for public figures to translate expertise into durable, distinctive public influence

• Campaign communications: the many forms of advocacy, including narrative frameworks, mobilization materials, and media strategy

• Program and curriculum design: narrative and communications programming for cohorts, fellowships, and professional development initiatives

Work samples and references are available upon request.

currently

Kendra currently serves as executive writer for the president of a leading multiracial democracy organization, producing the full range of executive communications including keynotes, essays, and social media content. She also serves as lead communications consultant for a long-term grassroots campaign building political power for Black workers in the temporary and gig economies — work that spans narrative strategy, advocacy communications, and public mobilization.

This fall, she will be the narrative advisor for The Studio by The Maybe’s pilot professional development program for policy experts building a public voice to challenge power inequality in tech and the economy.

selected work

• Black Women Best: co-leads on the Black Women Best framework, organizing an informal network of Black women activists and advocates. Co-produced the first BWB congressional report in partnership with over 40 Black women and the office of Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman; co-wrote the first BWB policy brief with Janelle Jones for the Roosevelt Institute.

• The Forge: co-produced “The Uprisings Issue” and contributed writing on organizing strategy and movement communications with Azza Altiraifi.

• Podcasts: led communications for the launch of The Homecomers with Sarah Smarsh podcast, garnering 30,000 downloads in the first month and earning national recognition; produced the Raci$m Is Profitable podcast.

• Media and publishing: has written and ghostwritten for Teen Vogue, Ms. Magazine, The American Prospect, The Forge, The Philadelphia Citizen, and the Kansas Reflector, among others.

• Roosevelt Institute: served as director of communications, driving organizational voice and overseeing a robust fellowship program.

• Center on Budget: began her career as a member of the Center on Budget’s State Priorities Partnership at the Kansas Center for Economic Growth, reshaping public opinion to successfully challenge regressive tax policy.