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Introducing our Department of Community Relations — Issue 6

Hello KES family,

I’m absolutely delighted to share some exciting news! We’ve brought our Advancement & Alumni Relations and Communications & Marketing teams together into one happy, hardworking team: the new Department of Community Relations. This change means we’ll tell our stories with even more heart and build stronger connections with alumni, families, and friends while supporting our students and the future of KES. I can’t wait for you to meet the team and see what we create together!

We’re thrilled to introduce the people who make this work possible:
  • Lindsay Leckie — Manager, Community Relations (Joined KES on October 6, 2025)
    Lindsay will lead the department, providing day-to-day oversight and strategic direction so our communications, marketing, alumni relations, and fundraising activities are tightly coordinated.
  • Katrena Thomas — Coordinator, Community Relations (KES ’16)
    Katrena coordinates fundraising campaigns, alumni programming and events, supports donor stewardship, works closely with the  Community Relations Officers to ensure communications are fabulous and that the day-to-day work of community engagement happens smoothly.
  • Morgaine Sullivan — Community Relations Officer, Information Services (KES ’09)
    Morgaine is our operational anchor — managing CRM and gift processing, prospect research and reporting, event logistics, stewardship materials, and the care of the KES archives.
  • Miguel Villar — Community Relations Officer, Communications and Marketing (KES ’19)
    Miguel shapes our digital voice and creative content: social media, photography/video, website updates, and the weekly communications that bring KES life to you.
Also under the Strategic Growth umbrella with Community Relations is Alternate Revenue & Rentals, led by Marion Robbins — Coordinator, Facility Rentals, who develops rental opportunities and campus uses that generate important revenue for the School.

Please be patient with us as some team members are new or only a few months into their roles. We’re so excited to cover school life and share the KES story more widely.

We’d love your ideas. If you have suggestions for programs, events, rental uses or partnerships that could help grow the School and strengthen our fiscal future, please send them my way at frederick@kes.ns.ca.


All my best,

Heather Strickey
Executive Director, Strategic Growth
 
P.S. Who am I? I taught at KES for 17 years, then led the Advancement and Alumni Relations Office for a decade, and am now in my second year of strategic thinking for our beloved institution! I am also the delighted mother of two KES alumnae.
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