KAITI LEWIS
Communications Manager
Kaiti is an accomplished, Murrow award-winning, communications professional with more than a decade of experience in enhancing an organization's reputation and brand image – across the public and private sectors. Her expertise in media/public relations includes campaign development, event planning, crisis communications, internal communications management and public speaking, media training, website management, and audio/visual production.
Whether on the campaign trail or spearheading a statewide association relaunch, Kaiti brings a strategy-first mindset to communications and shaping the public perception of a client's story.
She does so through consistent, effective marketing campaigns that both align with an organization's goals and objectives while also highlighting unique media moments. Her collaborative approach to identifying key messaging, and then using that messaging to create breakthrough moments, has secured coverage in national media outlets such as The Washington Post, Forbes, Fast Company, and more. Prior to joining Longfellow Communications, Kaiti served as the government relations senior strategist for the #1 audio company in the United States. In this role, she helped to win and retain several multi-million-dollar local, state, and federal contracts across verticals such as public health/safety, higher education, civic engagement, substance misuse disorder, and veterans' health. From 2020 to 2021 she led crisis communications efforts for California Governor Gavin Newsom's Office of Business and Economic Development.
Kaiti received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Moving from California to Maine in 2022, she now lives in Gray along with her husband and their son.
