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Kat Dodds
- Location:
- Canada
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Climate Change, Health/Healthcare, Education, Racial Injustice, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Economic Injustice, Privacy and Surveillance, Conflict, Security & Peace, Democracy, Power & Governance, Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Educational materials, Impact Producing, Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Designing impact guides, Alternative Distribution
- Cultural/racial identity:
- White settler with Irish/Scottish ancestors, living on unceded lands in so-called Canada
- Self identification:
- female, queer adjacent
Bio
Co-founder and CEO of Cool.World - an aspiring start-up Impact Distribution and Marketing SaaS Platform. Founder of Hello Cool World, co-founder of Drawing Wisdom, Kat was the mastermind behind The Corporation film’s ongoing outreach, both grassroots and mainstream. Currently, she holds worldwide distribution rights for both The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent, both films still Canada’s top-grossing docs of all time, with over 8 million recent views on Encore+, which closed its channel in 2023. Now, she has launched the Cool World channel on YouTube and is at work on the Cool World App which will be a tool for impact creators to share, promote, engage and monetize their projects. With the support of Mark Achbar she will be launching Manufacturing Consent this fall on the channel in an up-rezed version alongside a pilot for the “Podcast for Intellectual Self-Defense” that she will host.
Kat is an activist, artist, filmmaker and writer who got her start in marketing, campaigning and directing at Adbusters magazine in the early 90s. Now she’s back as contributing editor and working with publishers to launch the second edition of their “Manifesto for World Revolution”. An expert in social branding and engaging audiences as well as brokering partnerships with nonprofits, Kat is known for her dedication to social and environmental justice, Indigenous solidarity, Palestinian solidarity, health equity, anti-stigma work, and harm reduction. In 2007, Kat received a “Woman of Vision” award from Women in Film for her work in interactive media. In 2013 she co-authored the book, Picturing Transformation, Nexw’áyansut (2013, Figure 1 Publishing) with Nancy Bleck and Chief Bill Williams. It told the impact story of a 10-year project to save a rainforest. In 2016 she was profiled for her role as an impact producer for her work with the film 65_RedRoses in “Story, Money, Impact: Funding Media for Social Change” by Tracey Friesen (2016, Routledge). In 2019 she received a BC Achievement Community Award for her work mentoring youth and driving collaborative projects. This coming year she will be helping to launch the film Bribe, Inc. and focussing on fundraising to make the Cool World App into a SaaS offering for the impact community. Her focus will be on fundraising for the podcast and the app in the coming year, therefore she is unable to take on new film projects at this time.
