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Kate Callen

Executive Communications Coordinator
Strategic Communications
University of California, Office of the President

Kate Callen
Kate Callen entered the communications field as a science writer/editor at the U.S. Public Health Service. She joined United Press International as a features editor and later served as UPI’s San Diego Bureau Chief. She began her career in higher education as News Bureau Director at the Universityof San Diego, where she also taught journalism. She has spent the last decade at the University of California, most recently as speechwriter to the president of the UC system. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., ’76) and Columbia University (M.F.A., ’78).