Our Mentors

Kate Locke ~ Profile

Education

• Wenona, High School Certificate, '97
  

• University of Canberra, Bachelor of Communications (Journalism), '99
  

• University of Technology, Sydney, Bachelor of Communications (New Media/Creative Writing), '02
  

• TAFE NSW, Certificate IV in Interactive Multimedia, '04
  

• Online Content Manager, Zurich (financial services and insurance company), Australia, '08
  

• Editorial Adviser, Freehills (corporate law firm)
  

• Web Content Manager, Catch (interactive arm of Reed Business Information)
  

• Specialist Editor - Publishing, Lexis Nexis (legal publisher)
  

• Interactive Campaign Coordinator, Carat Media (media agency)
  

• Launched own web design company, Urbin Dirt Interactive, in January 2003.
  

• Editorial Assistant for Rolling Stone Australia magazine, 2000-2001.
  

• Headhunted to be Sheek Magazine Books Editor in November 2002.
  

• Red Room poetry competition winner. Interviewed on Eastside FM in Sydney Australia.
  

• Has been published in various publications, in both Online and Print Media: Rolling Stone; STU Magazine; Revolver Magazine; The Sydney Writers Festival Newspaper and Website; The Red Room Organisation Website; The Tablet Poetry Magazine; The Arrow Poetry Anthology; Dubbo Daily Liberal newspaper.
  

• Selected for the Olympic News Service during the Sydney 2000 Olympics, as a reporter to cover the Beach Volleyball at the Olympics.
  

• Lived and worked in England and Scotland for one year in 1998 at the age of 18, working as a housemistress and assistant teacher in a preparatory school in Edinburgh, and as a sales assistant in a clothes shop in London, and traveled to New York
  

• Traveled through Europe and the UK in a campervan for 8 months in 2004/05
  

• After selling the campervan, traveled to India, China, Vietnam, Thailand in 2005
  

• Started investing in the share market in 2006
  

• Bought her first property in Sydney at age 26, and was profiled in Your Investment Property magazine as a young investment property owner
  

• Invited to become Web Master of the Deafness Council of NSW website in 2008