KK Ottesen is an award-winning storyteller whose powerful, humanizing narratives seek to break down barriers and stereotypes and allow for the discovery and celebration of common good. Ottesen has shared the stories of individual lives from all walks of life, through first-person narratives and photographic portraits, as a regular contributor to The Washington Post Magazine and at other publications, and through her books, Activist: Portraits of Courage; Great Americans: Famous Names, Real People; and the shared book project, When You Hear Me, You Hear Us: Voices on Youth Incarceration, undertaken with the nonprofit Free Minds. Ottesen is currently at work on Whose Streets? Our Streets: January 6, The Local Story, an oral history project funded by the DC Oral History Collaborative.
