Harmony Labs
Kate Gouin is an experienced professional in climate and environmental policy, currently serving as Chief of Staff at Harmony Labs since February 2024. Previously, Kate held the position of Deputy Director at Earth Alliance and served over eight years in various roles at the Office of the Mayor of New York City, including Chief of Staff for the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice. In this capacity, Kate managed a team of 40, developed and executed comprehensive climate strategies, and implemented sustainability policies aimed at improving the health and resiliency of New Yorkers. Kate's extensive background also includes roles in sales management, operations, and legal assistance, along with academic credentials in Gastronomy from Boston University and Hotel and Tourism Management from New York University.
Harmony Labs
We are a media research lab, using science, data, and creativity to research and reshape our relationship with media. For more than a decade, Harmony Labs has helped storytellers and strategists, decision makers and dreamers, harness the immense power of media to shape a positive, pluralistic future. With the Narrative Observatory, for the first time ever, we’re harnessing powerful industry relationships to deliver one-of-a-kind data infrastructure that empowers partners to find, reach, and resonate with the right audience in today’s media minefield. The Narrative Observatory delivers audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content—all derived from the actual behavior of real people and true audiences, not survey results, demographic groups, or inauthentic online activity. We work with a wide range of partners on issues of existential importance, like climate, gun violence, political corruption, artificial intelligence, and more, using an approach to research that is rigorous, participatory, and public. One of the first papers we co-authored looked at fracking narratives in documentary film. The outputs we’ve created with our partners include websites, presentations, peer-reviewed publications, toolkits, curriculum, interactives, white papers, and media. Founded by John S. Johnson in 2008, Harmony Labs is a 501(c)3 incorporated in New York State. Funders include Atlantic Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Google, and more.