Katie Lin
Katie Lin
Senior Director of Production at SeaLegacy
Mackenzie '02
Senior Director of Production at SeaLegacy
Katie is a Canadian multimedia content producer with a Masters degree in International Multimedia Journalism from Newcastle University (UK).
Her interest in media development and humanitarian news initially led her to work overseas in Malawi with the Canadian organization, Journalists for Human Rights, and later, with the UK-based NGO, Concern Universal.
In 2012, she completed a communications fellowship at the Central Tibetan Administration in northern India, where she also worked with the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy to produce her first documentary. Katie then went on to work as a series writer for the award-winning international social travel series, Peeta Planet, before heading to the southern hemisphere to work as a digital content creator for the crees Foundation, a conservation organization based in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2016, she returned to western Canada to have her daughter, where she segued into environmental campaigning, working with the Greenpeace Canada digital team to strategically communicate critical, global campaigns online.
She is currently the Senior Director of Production at SeaLegacy, an ocean conservation organization that brings some of the world’s leading content creators and storytellers together to tell the untold stories of our oceans and coastal communities.
She is based on Vancouver Island, Canada.