Kakie Urch is an Associate Professor of Multimedia at the University of Kentucky.

Kakie has built (and run) three radio stations and listened to many more. Also, she did the M&Ms sort for much of Van Halen’s 5150 tour.

She did doctoral work on the canon of delivery, rhetorical production and power at Penn State with Cheryl Glenn, Sharon Crowley and Henry Giroux and was a fellow in multimedia at the UC-Berkeley Knight Center. Her most cited academic work is on the concept of the possibility of flaneuserie in the “em space” of Modernism.

She has been an editor and special projects producer for Knight Ridder, Gannett and Scripps-Howard holdings in Cincinnati, Palm Springs, Lexington, Ky., Des Moines and State College, Pa. She worked preproduction and placement for Jaffe Entertainment LA on Terminator Salvation (McG), Seven Pounds (Will Smith), The Miracle at Santa Anna (Spike Lee), 30 on 30 Kobe Bryant (Spike Lee), Soul Men (Malcolm Lee), The Comebacks (Tom Brady) and The Longshots (Fred Durst).

Her most recent work is the “One Night Stand” music docu-series by Leslie Lyons airing as a Qwest Original on Quincy Jones’ Qwest TV on Roku and OTT in 144 countries. (Seun Kuti/Kojo Melche Roney; David Amram/Cheyenne Mize).

She is a tenured associate professor of multimedia in the School of Journalism and Media in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky, an ACEJMC-accredited, Hearst Competition Top 10 program. She is the faculty advisor to WRFL-FM student-run radio and the Bluegrass Student Chapter.

Her students have won Emmys, Pulitzers and Miss USA.