Mikka Kei Ito Macdonald (she/her)

Creative director, writer, designer & illustrator, and an avid (but not necessarily speedy) marathoner & ultrarunner (50K - 100K).

Ms. Macdonald's background stems from experience in policy, creative strategy, communications, and campaigns. She has led multiple high-budget communications campaigns, serving in a breadth of senior management roles including communications lead, press secretary, digital & design lead, political lead, and as the head of the campaign.

Her work & ghostwriting have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, Variety, and TIME Magazine, she has been quoted in outlets including the NYT, POLITICO, & the WSJ, and her personal writing has appeared in the Daily Beast, ChangeWire, DCist, WAMU, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, and AspenInstitute.org

One of her projects also explores Japanese American Incarceration Camps and the intersection of policy and human experience in World War II. Lifting her grandparents' experience in the camps, she published an article on the subject in the Princeton Journal of Asian American Studies and has spoken in cities including Tokyo, Japan and Boise, Idaho (near Minidoka).

She is a graduate of Bates College, where she earned a BA in Politics (Political Economy) with a minor in History.​