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Burning since 2001, Kate Gonnella acted as the Medical Chief for Emergency Services for a dozen years before becoming the Chief of Emergency Operations in Black Rock City.

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Kate Raudenbush is a Burning Man-bred, New York-based sculpture artist, who has created 18 projects at Burning Man since her first mind-expanding Burn in 1999. Kate has also shown her allegorical art nationally and internationally, and her latest public artwork, "Axis Mundi," is currently exhibited in Washington D.C.

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Katie Bain is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She has more than a decade of experience covering events, artists, and trends throughout the United States and beyond, and is currently the director of dance and electronic music coverage at Billboard. Her work has appeared in and on publications including The Guardian, VICE, Noisey, The New Yorker, Flaunt, and RBMA. She loves the playa more than most other places and has been to six Burns, including Israel's Midburn in 2016.

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Katie Hazard (yes that’s her real last name) is the Associate Director of Art Management for Burning Man. She leads the selection, placement, and installation of over 400 artworks annually in Black Rock City and beyond. She’s been passionate about arts administration and grants management for many years; she has a degree in Art History from the University of Notre Dame, worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, and spent 10 years at Harvard University as a Senior Grants Manager. Katie’s first year on playa was 2000, and she volunteered for 10 years (DMV, Man Base Lighting, art build crews, theme camp organization, Fire Conclave) before joining the staff in 2013. Katie is also a certified yoga teacher and has been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation for more than a decade.

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Katie Hazard (yes that’s her real last name) is the Associate Director of Art Management for Burning Man. She leads the selection, placement, and installation of over 400 artworks annually in Black Rock City and beyond. She’s been passionate about arts administration and grants management for many years; she has a degree in Art History from the University of Notre Dame, worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, and spent 10 years at Harvard University as a Senior Grants Manager. Katie’s first year on playa was 2000, and she volunteered for 10 years (DMV, Man Base Lighting, art build crews, theme camp organization, Fire Conclave) before joining the staff in 2013. Katie is also a certified yoga teacher and has been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation for more than a decade. | Spec Guy is an Art Management Specialist with Burning Man Project's Art team. In this role, she administers the Honoraria and Temple grant programs, acts as a liaison for selected art projects, manages the ARTerians, and does placement for all art projects. Her superpower is the ability to work through the inherent conflict between the creative process, while executing the organization and strategy required to complete a project.

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Kelsey, known as Trouble on playa, is a Rope Access Technician and general enthusiast of all things up-in-the-air and/or combustible. On playa since 2011, she fell hard for the big art scene and helped in the creation of the Pier and La Llorona, the Ichthyosaur, Embrace, the Temple of Promise, and the Space Whale. She is happiest in a climbing harness, behind the wheel of a VR, or with a fistful of matches.

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Kenny Reff (K~Love) is a photographer, writer, producer and entrepreneur. He found Burning Man in 2012 while doing research for a techno thriller novel and hasn't climbed out of the rabbit hole since. Within three years of going to BRC solo, he was mayor of Washington DC's Home Rule Village, a co-leader of Theme Camp It's All Made Up, and an active participant in the DC Burner community. He is the director and co-producer of Burning Man: A Hueman Experience, which examines the challenge of cultural and economic diversity on playa. His video and photo work can be found at LimelightDC.com.

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Kez Quin is Assistant Manager for Café and Ice in Black Rock City. Kez arrived in BRC in 2009, became a Ranger in 2011, and started working for The Man in 2013. Now Kez plans to ride the BRC merry go round until they kick him off. He lives by the motto, “There is nothing I can’t do. Just things I haven’t done yet.”

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Kim Cook is Burning Man's Director of Creative Initiatives. She works on the frontier of exploration for projects and collaborations that extend Burning Man culture into the world. Most recently, Cook facilitated the team for "virtual Burning Man 2020" with 10 technology platform partners offering a range of digital, dynamic, and interactive approaches to the "Multiverse". She successfully builds urban, regional, national, and international projects that increase mutual understanding, advance civic well being, elevate cultural engagement, and further the aesthetic design elements of communities.

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