With over 15 years of experience helping clients build brands and win tough campaigns, Kate Monson is one of the Democratic Party's leading creative strategists. As a producer, designer, and founding partner at FSSG, Kate works across digital and print media to deliver game-changing creative. She has worked with campaigns and nonprofits throughout the country on design strategy, branding, digital media, direct mail, and fundraising communications.

Prior to co-founding FSSG with Isaac Wright, Kate’s studio focused on branding, print, and digital media for political and advocacy projects at the local, state, and federal level. In 2016, she led digital strategy for Cap the Rate, the ballot initiative campaign that ended abusive payday lending practices in South Dakota by capping interest rates.

Kate served as Communications Director for the Minnesota DFL Party in the 2012 cycle – the Democrats’ most successful election in Minnesota history – in which the party was able to break all-time fundraising records, regain both chambers of the Minnesota legislature, defeat a Tea Party hero to elect Congressman Rick Nolan (MN-08), re-elect Senator Amy Klobuchar, and defeat both an anti-marriage equality amendment and a voter restriction amendment.

A fifth-generation South Dakotan, Kate grew up on the farm where her family has lived for 130 years. She studied religion and classics, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and earning a Master of Arts in religion and theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

Kate was named to the American Association of Political Consultants “40 Under 40 Class of 2018.” She was also honored as a “2018 Rising Star” by Campaigns and Elections Magazine.

She is a political partner in the Truman National Security Project, which honored her and Isaac Wright with the 2018 Harry S. Truman Award for Political Leadership.

Kate was a 2016 New Leaders Council Fellow and serves on the Louisiana chapter advisory board. She also serves on the board of directors of The Juror Project, a New Orleans-based nonprofit working to increase jury diversity.