Kaitlyn Fusco

Kaitlyn Fusco is a strategic communications leader with more than 10 years of experience helping mission-driven organizations, healthcare brands, science institutions, nonprofits, and public-facing experts build visibility, credibility, and trust.

With a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Central Florida, Kaitlyn brings an editorial foundation and executive communications lens to every client relationship. Her background spans public relations, media strategy, crisis communications, stakeholder engagement, brand positioning, website strategy, content leadership, digital ecosystem development, and organizational messaging.

Before founding Kindred, Kaitlyn led marketing and public relations for nationally recognized organizations including Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium and The Florida Aquarium. Her work has secured national and international visibility across outlets and platforms, including the BBC, CNN, USA Today, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, Nat Geo Kids, The Economist, and more.

Her experience includes high-stakes crisis communications, where she has led messaging strategy for complex situations by identifying key audiences and ensuring board members, executive teams, staff, volunteers, donors, members, media, and the public received clear, appropriate, and timely communication.

Kaitlyn also served as Associate Publisher of Central Florida Lifestyle, a publishing company producing eight monthly hyperlocal magazines. In that role, she helped lead content strategy, client relationships, production systems, sales strategy, and cross-functional teams, strengthening her ability to understand audience behavior, local markets, brand storytelling, and the operational demands behind high-volume communications work.

At Kindred, Kaitlyn and the Kindred team lead client relationships with senior-level strategy, thoughtful counsel, and clear communication. The firm is built around a strong portfolio of talented and experienced creative, digital, content, PR, media, and technical resources, allowing Kindred to assemble the right team for each client's goals while maintaining the strategic clarity, accountability, and trust of a founder-led communications firm.

Known for bridging strategic vision with hands-on execution, Kaitlyn has led cross-functional teams, directed high-volume communications systems, built media relationships, translated complex work into compelling public stories, and developed campaigns recognized for both creativity and impact.

Kaitlyn founded Kindred to bring the full weight of her experience in journalism, public relations, crisis communications, marketing, storytelling, and strategic leadership to people and organizations doing meaningful work.

After years of working alongside nonprofits, science institutions, community organizations, healthcare leaders, educators, and mission-driven teams, Kaitlyn became deeply inspired by the power of communications to expand impact. She saw how the right message, delivered with clarity and care, could help good people doing good things reach more people, build more trust, and create more lasting change.

Kindred was created from that belief: that strong communications should not just make organizations more visible. It should help them do more good.