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.