Kenzie O’Keefe, Executive Director
Kenzie joined ThreeSixty as its full-time leader in October 2023. Passionate about inspiring and equipping young people to find, use, and amplify their voices, she brings experience as a classroom teacher, community journalist, marketing consultant, and nonprofit leader to the role.
She comes to ThreeSixty from Pillsbury United Communities in Minneapolis where she most recently served as the agency’s head of mobilization and narrative strategy, overseeing a team of community-based storytellers working to develop media and strategic messaging to shift narratives of people, place, race, and poverty, and support policy leading to equitable systems change. Born and raised in St. Paul, Kenzie holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Denise Huang, Associate Director of Operations and Systems
Denise joined ThreeSixty in December 2022. Previously, as a community engagement manager, she worked with Asian American and immigrant nonprofits in the Chicago area, providing community education and culturally responsive programming to diverse groups on topics related to immigration, gender, structural violence, and Asian American histories.
Denise is drawn to compelling and incisive storytelling and enjoys working with young people to explore their voice.
Denise is from San Francisco and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts and the University of Chicago, where she studied political theory. She brings a love for fluffy prose and dislike for run-on sentences.
Pechulano Ngwe Ali, Associate Director of Programs
Pechulano joined ThreeSixty in June 2025. Pechulano is multimedia storyteller and educator with experience in journalism, public communication, and external relations. He has a knack for persuasive, engaging and impactful journalistic storytelling that centers people and communities. He is passionate about leveraging his skills in media production and curriculum design and implementation, to train and mentor young people in finding, developing and using their voices for civic engagement in their communities.
Previously, he taught college courses in data journalism, podcasting and narrative audio storytelling, long form multimedia journalism and international communication. He has also worked in the humanitarian sector, including with UNHCR, where he helped communicate the needs and stories of displaced communities in the Republic of Congo.
Outside of work, Pechulano is an avid reader, a devoted fan and producer of narrative audio stories, an amateur tennis player and an at-home chef.
