Kathy Bisbee
Director
Alliance for Digital Equity
Ms. Bisbee currently serves as the Director of the Alliance for Digital Equity, a grassroots, facilitative leadership-modeled digital equity coalition serving 70+ organizations in four counties of western Massachusetts, housed in the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Baystate Health.
Previously she served as the executive director of Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), a community media arts center in Brookline, MA, and was the founding director of the Public VR Lab, the first public interest, publicly-accessible XR/emerging media lab in the U.S.
She is a documentary and immersive filmmaker, producing international films and co-produced customized VR content for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, and continues to be a global advocate for democratizing public access to XR and other forms of media, Internet, and technology for all.
An alumni research fellow at the MIT Open Doc Lab, Kathy’s fieldwork on equity and inclusion in media was featured in Ms. Magazine. She was the fifth-ever recipient of the 2019 ‘Nextant Legacy Prize’ from the Virtual World Society; and has been a longtime member of the CyberXR Coalition and XRSI.
Ms. Bisbee resides in western Massachusetts with her family where she is using natural horsemanship methods to train her six-year old mustang/rescued mare, Paprika, who teaches her to be a deeper listener, a more consistent leader, and a stronger advocate for affordable healthcare for all.
