By Aneesa Grant, The Seattle Medium
KD Hall, founder of the KD Hall Foundation and KD Hall Communications, has accepted a new position with the King County Library System (KCLS) as Director of Communications and Marketing for the executive team. With 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, and storytelling, Hall brings 16 years of leadership and ten years of facilitating adult education to one of the largest library systems in the world, with an operating budget of $140 million and 50 libraries.
Hall is confident that her last ten years of experience have prepared her to lead and is excited about accepting the executive marketing position. Her focus will be on bringing awareness, strategy, and community events to KCLS while aligning with her personal goals of producing more films and authoring books.
As the principal consultant for KD Hall Communications for over ten years, Hall has an impressive track record. In 2020, her firm led the Japanese American Incarceration crisis as the chief communications officer at Bellevue College, and she simultaneously partnered with Treehouse’s executive leadership team, co-producing equity marketing campaigns, films, and crisis management. In just four years, she taught leadership classes to UW Communications students and led over ten crisis management teams.
Hall has received numerous awards, including 4 Emmy nominations, the Women of Color Small Business Innovator Award 2021, Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40-under-40 class of 2021, Women to Watch (South Sound 2019), Comcast RISE recipient, and Diversity Spirit Achievement Awards. She received accolades from the Governor of Washington for her work with the KD Hall Foundation’s Women on the Rise program and Seattle Storm Believe in Women.
While Hall will remain active with the KD Hall Foundation as Board Chair, she will step away from the day-to-day operations of KD Hall Communications. She remains the owner and provides strategic direction and has appointed Kyle Sam Talosig as Managing Director, who has been instrumental in the firm and Foundation’s success. Hall is “ready to see Kyle lead and support his leadership.”
