Kathy McKiernan

kathymckiernan

Kathy is the Global Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing for ONE.

Kathy's contributions

America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel & Claire Diaz-Ortiz travel to Honduras with ONE

America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel & Claire Diaz-Ortiz travel to Honduras with ONE

I just came back from an amazing listening and learning trip to Honduras with actresses and ONE supporters America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel, and Claire Diaz-Ortiz, who leads social innovation at Twitter. We went to witness how women and girls are both the worst impacted by extreme poverty, and also the “best bet” in development

Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there’s good news)

Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there’s good news)

On February 26th, Bono spoke at TED to show the progress in the fight against extreme poverty… and what we need to do next. Bono shares the new facts about fighting global poverty: “Forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, my usual tricks. The only thing singing today will be the facts.” By becoming a

A day for girls and ending child marriage

A day for girls and ending child marriage

“You can’t marginalize more than half of the globe’s population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.” Those powerful words are from Dr. Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE and a member of ONE’s board of directors, about the critical need to put women and girls at

See how America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel & Claire Diaz-Ortiz are standing up for women and girls

See how America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel & Claire Diaz-Ortiz are standing up for women and girls

It was a great day in NYC yesterday as we launched ONE’s Women and Girls Initiative with the help of ONE supporters and actress-activists America Ferrera and Alexis Bledel, and Claire Diaz-Ortiz, head of social innovation at Twitter. From an early morning CNN interview, to a live Twitter chat, to a live-streamed panel at the

Bono in TIME on Africa’s ‘resource miracle’

Bono in TIME on Africa’s ‘resource miracle’

ONE is in full-gear on all fronts heading into the G8 meeting this weekend, including our co-founder Bono. In addition to participating in our ONE Street Tweet action (you can see his message in the photo above) and speaking at tomorrow’s Chicago Council Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, he has written a piece

Wrapping up ONE’s work at the Sundance Film Festival

Wrapping up ONE’s work at the Sundance Film Festival

Just got back to DC (and 60 degree weather!?) from snowy Park City, Utah, where the ONE team spent an amazing weekend at the Sundance Film Festival creating a new video campaign to support our big push to get to “the beginning of the end of AIDS” by 2015. It was our first year at

Greetings from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival!

Greetings from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival!

ONE will be reporting live from the Sundance Film Festival in Utah from January 20 to 22. Stay tuned to the ONE Blog for more updates. Greetings from Park City, Utah and the Sundance Film Festival! ONE is on the ground in Park City thanks to the great team at the Sundance Channel, who reached

Famine: What the $%&#?

Famine: What the $%&#?

Correction: An earlier version of this blog post the author wrote that “our celebrity supporters shout out one four letter word that the majority of viewers will find offensive”. This was unintentionally misleading as not everyone featured in the PSA actually used this word. The post below has been corrected for accuracy: ONE has been

Bono and K’naan discuss famine with CNN’s Anderson Cooper

Bono and K’naan discuss famine with CNN’s Anderson Cooper

ONE cofounder Bono and Somali-born singer and poet K’naan interviewed with CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night on the growing crisis in Somalia and urged the world to put a higher priority on responding to what has become a humanitarian catastrophe.

Bono and K’naan meet with Somali Minnesotans to discuss crisis in Horn of Africa

Bono and K’naan meet with Somali Minnesotans to discuss crisis in Horn of Africa

Last night, ONE cofounder Bono and Somali–born singer and poet K’naan met in Minneapolis with several Somali Minnesotans to discuss and draw attention to the growing famine in Somalia, where a food crisis has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people and is putting nearly 12 million more lives at risk. There

Bono meets with members of Congress

Putting some wind at the back of ONE members who have been lobbying their senators to oppose cuts that will cost lives, our cofounder Bono was in DC this week. He met with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle about the importance of preserving smart, effective programs that are delivering major results

Bono on the MDGS in the New York Times

As world leaders converge on New York for the UN General Assembly meeting this week, ONE cofounder Bono writes today in his column for the New York Times that one test of the meeting’s success will be whether leaders recommit to the Millennium Development Goals, “possibly the most visionary deal that most people have never

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