Kate Parkinson-Morgan

I'm an award-winning writer and editor who crafts editorial with heart. I specialize in storytelling about health and wellbeing. I'm skilled at tackling sensitive topics and translating complex scientific concepts for a broad audience. I’m a creative-meets-strategist type, so I love the challenge of adapting storytelling to reach new audiences across audio, newsletters, video and other emerging platforms. I thrive in collaborative, purpose-driven environments.

I run an editorial consulting business, Kairos Studio, where I work with organizations, authors, and brands to hone their science and health storytelling. Before that, I was a Senior Editor at the award-winning audio storytelling company, Pushkin Industries, where I spearheaded the editorial direction of projects for Apple and Johns Hopkins University, and a producer at the audio storytelling startup Gimlet Media/Spotify. I got my start in journalism working on the digital and social team at Morning Edition at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. In my spare time, I practice floristry, and write a newsletter celebrating the senses called “Making Sense,” where I interview artists and thinkers about their relationship to the senses and make them a bouquet based on our conversation.

Health & Wellbeing Highlights:

• Spearheaded reporting and producing for the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and Public Radio International’s three-part series about the science of love, with host Geena Davis. My reporting in part three included features on the relationship between grief and love, and how our love of nature will shape our future on earth.
• Developed and launched “Come As You Are,” audio storytelling about the science of sexual wellbeing with host and bestselling author Dr. Emily Nagoski. The project exceeded monthly download projections by 181 percent and debuted in the Top 10 of Apple podcasts’ “Society and Culture” shows. It also won Best Wellness Podcast at the Ambie Awards.
• Launched and managed the internal editorial production plan for Apple’s “Time to Walk,” the company’s first storytelling project exclusive to Fitness+ on the Apple Watch. The show, which explores wellbeing and mental health, reaches more than 100 million Apple Watch users. It won a Webby Award for its work in health, science and education.
• Shaped the narrative arc and the editorial direction of the Johns Hopkins audio storytelling project about bioethics. The project won a Signal Award for Best Science Show.
• Led story editing for “A Slight Change of Plans,” a show that combines science and storytelling to explore ideas about change and uncertainty. The show, hosted by cognitive scientist Dr. Maya Shankar, won Apple’s Best Podcast of the Year and an Ambie Award for Best Personal Growth podcast.
• Supported developmental editing and research for Dr. Maya Shankar’s bestselling book “The Other Side of Change.”

Additional health and wellbeing storytelling: 

• The science of self-compassionate touch (UC Berkeley, Greater Good Science Center)
• How gentle touch builds connection and benefits caregivers (UC Berkeley, Greater Good Science Center)
• The potential of MDMA therapy to help Black folks process racial trauma (The Nod, Gimlet Media / Spotify)
• On the unexpected side effects of pregnancy (The Cut, New York Magazine)