Join us for networking brunch at the lovely Studio Q with co-hosts, Kristen Olson of Quincy Street Kitchen and Kate Kearns of Advokate Communications! Learn all about how to grow a food brand with strategy, content, and a bit of charm.
Enjoy a light breakfast spread of fresh fruit, delicious pastries, and coffee from local, woman-owned staple, The Buttered Tin!
Quincy Street Kitchen (@quincystreetkitchen): your partner for drool-worthy food content. Taking brands– big or small– from uninspired to crushing the next campaign with strategic photo and video content.
Owner, Photographer, and Food Expert, Kristen Olson, has worked as a food photographer and recipe developer supporting food brands like Target, Risata Wines, Watkins Spices, Daiya Foods, and Bushel Boy. After a 10-year career with General Mills in the Betty Crocker test kitchens, Kristen launched Quincy Street Kitchen as a way to share her love of food, content creation, and storytelling for big and small companies in the food space.
She specializes in food photography and video, recipe development, and is a media-trained spokesperson. Outside of her professional life, Kristen loves traveling, motorcycles, beekeeping, and bourbon.
Advokate Communications (@advokatecomm): strategy, execution, and the messy space in between.
Owner, Strategist, and Herder of Cats, Kate Kearns, is a one-woman toolkit for brand marketing, communications, and content. After years in MN food and CPG, Kate took Advokate Communications full-time in 2020. Today her client list is a food-focused lineup including a local hunger nonprofit, a sixth-generation female farmer in southern Georgia, the largest hemp foods producer in North America, and more.
Kate’s years of content strategy, social media, creative production, and aggressive problem solving allow her to build content strategies that work for brands and their audiences, create and support content pipelines, and help companies turn their customers into brand evangelists.
Kate is also on the board of directors for the Advertising Federation of Minnesota.
The way consumers interact with your brand takes a lot of planning – from social media and in-person events, to buying the product off the shelf. That’s where Kristen and Kate come in. As strategic partners, they work together on behalf of brands to take them from start to finish – turning a nugget of an idea into a premium customer experience.
Don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn how to put a food brand’s best foot forward!
We can’t wait to see you there!
Location: Studio Q, 1310 Quincy St NE Studio #1, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Parking: See instructions and map below.
