Barbara Myerson Katz
Communications Coordinator
“At CTL, I get to do work that I love, in areas that have always been my professional and personal passions—writing and communications, education, and the arts. The difference we’re able to make in the lives of educators and learners motivates me every day.”
Barb has more than 30 years of experience developing, writing and evaluating educational print and video for children and adults, and writing about education and health. She has taught classes on writing and mass media for children and teenagers, and conducted workshops for teachers on classroom use of video. At CTL, Barb works on all aspects of communications and marketing, and assists with the development and writing of grant proposals, and the development and production of publications, print and multimedia materials, including the Parent College Toolkit and DVD for GEAR UP Kentucky. She has also designed, coordinated and led full-day workshops for parents on helping students to prepare for postsecondary education, as part of the annual statewide GEAR UP Alliance Institute for a College-Going Culture.
She began her career developing and writing for educational media projects in her native Philadelphia, and as a high school English teacher in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Barb has worked on staff and as a consultant in audience research on national and international projects for the producers of Sesame Street in New York, and as a writer and content designer for Kentucky Educational Television's nationally broadcast GED Connection series and award-winning Arts Toolkits. She has also worked on the development and evaluation of arts education programs for the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Center for the Arts.
Since 1988, Barb has been a regular contributor to Louisville Magazine in the areas of education and health, and has received 12 Louisville Metro Journalism Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for her articles. She has also written for U of L magazine at the University of Louisville, and nationally for Parents Magazine.
Barb’s other passion is the arts. She has performed professionally in musical theater since she was a teenager, and has appeared locally with Music Theatre Louisville and CenterStage. She and her husband, David, have a grown son and daughter, and love to travel, bicycle and take long walks with their dog.
- Recipient of 12 Louisville Metro Journalism Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists
- Regional Emmy Award Nominee for Kentucky Educational Television’s A Field Trip to the Forest
- John Harrison Minnick Award for Scholarship and Leadership in Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
- Certificate of Advanced Study (Post-Master’s), Human Development and Research in Children’s Television, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
- Master of Science, Secondary Education, and Post-Master's coursework, Secondary Education and Human Learning and Development, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
- Bachelor of Arts, English, Magna Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania