2009 Pollie Awards and Conference

Kathie Legg

Kathie Legg

Kathie Legg is the mobile product manager for the US division of Hachette Filapacchi Media, a position she has held since March 2009. She is also a mobile technology consultant and the co-founder/executive director of MobileMonday DC. Ms. Legg has provided strategy and marketing consulting services to such companies as the Los Angeles Times, University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, Buzzwire, and the American Association of Political Consultants and Public Affairs Professionals.

Ms. Legg previously served as a political producer at Yahoo!, where she directed Web 2.0 integration and optimization campaigns. Prior to that, she was the business development manager at MSHC Partners, where she specialized in developing new political outreach tools and designing innovative SMS campaigns. Ms. Legg worked as the lead researcher and assistant editor of The Politics-to-Go Handbook: A Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics at the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at The George Washington University.

Ms. Legg received her B.A. in Political Science and Information Science and Policy from The State University of New York at Albany, and her M.A. in Political Management from The George Washington University.