Kate Savinelli serves as the Marketing Coordinator at UConn's Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI). In this role, she leads and supports a range of marketing, communications, and event coordination efforts. Her work includes developing marketing and content strategies, managing CCEI’s presence across social media platforms, coordinating the creation of promotional materials, writing and editing event and program recaps, and maintaining up-to-date, engaging content across the center’s website.

Kate also plays an active role in supporting UConn-founded startups and coordinating the work of student employees within the center. She is a professional member of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers and remains deeply involved in fostering a community-driven approach to innovation and entrepreneurship.

Kate has an extensive background in journalism, digital media management, and photography. She has written and executed content for organizations both in her collegiate career and in her postgraduate career. She has aided in the publication of multiple articles and projects, focusing on topics related to: journalistic press freedom issues, foreign affairs, cyberworld legislation efforts, and sports media.

Kate graduated from the University of Maryland in 2022, earning two degrees in; 1) Multi-Platform Journalism, 2) Criminology and Criminal Justice. She also earned a minor in Creative Writing. She spent all eight semesters on the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholarship, awarded to her upon arrival at UMD for outstanding work in journalism. During the winter term of her sophomore year, she studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, taking a culturally rigorous course in photojournalism and travel writing.

Her current work focuses on digital media and marketing efforts, as well as website design and branding, audience engagement, and database management. To view a more detailed background of Kate’s personal and professional work, visit kaspp.com.