Katie Laird (aka: happykatie, or Katya if you're in the Russian literary mood) serves the
Schipul team as Strategic Advisor, a position that involves lots of tea leaf divination, thumb war training and borderline obsessive-compulsive book reading.
Katie started working at Schipul in 2005 as a graphic designer, moved on to a Communications Coordinator position and now enjoys working with all different parts of the company and regularly bringing in brownies to keep the office sugar high going strong.
Read the official stuff on
Katie's CV here. An active Blogger for over 8 years, you can find Katie writing online at some of these spots:
- happykatie (www.happykatie.com) - a personal blog covering topics ranging from Social Media to online communications and marketing to non profit organizations to graphic/industrial design to things that are pretty and shiny to graffiti and hip hop magic. So yeah, pretty much everything.
- happykiddo (www.happykiddo.com) - a kiddo-focused blog devoted to all things Ella (the shortest person in Katie's life) along with modern parenting tips, tricks, ideas and shopping hyperness.
- happykatie thinks outloud (www.happykatie.tumblr.com) - a brain candy dumping ground for urban culture, DIY fashion, foodie and other completely and utterly random pieces of trivia and links.
- Netsquared blog (www.netsquared.com/klaird) - Katie contributes to a little piece of the non profit technology group Netsquared discussing ways NPOs can utilize online technologies to advance their organizations' objectives.
- Houstonist (www.houstonist.com) - serving as Features editor, Katie joins the Houstonist team in borderline smarmy coverage of Houston-area news, events, food, people and juicy metro tidbits.
- Houston Dr. Sketchy (www.houstonsketchy.com) - happykatie plays Hip Swinging Hostess to the Houston chapter of the burlesque-inspired drawing club. Artists meet monthly for cheeky life drawing sessions, live music, silly contests and an all-around fabulous time.
