Cece K. (IN A NUTSHELL)

In 2020, Cece took a COVID gap year to join the founding team of Curious Cardinals as Head of Mission Communication and Alignment. This fall, she is back on the CC team supporting marketing!

She graduated from Dartmouth in the spring of 2024, following a second gap year spent making a documentary about the radical culture of environmental stewardship on Chile's remote, biodiverse Robinson Crusoe Island. She is working on several other film projects, all of which creatively highlight marginalized voices, including an upcoming feature directed by Gurinder Chadha (“Bend it Like Beckham”) and produced by Stephen Jones (“Wonder Woman”, “Gravity”). Previously, she worked on SXSW Audience Award winning documentary The Art of Making It and Liz Plank’s disability rights film.

An explorer at heart, she studied Arabic and Geography at Dartmouth. She was named a 2022-2023 John Robert Lewis scholar for her work on immigration reform and expanding access to Dartmouth for refugee applicants. The US Congress even gave her a formal shoutout for this work!

She has written a column for newspapers in Midcoast Maine and has contributed to various publications across New York and Maine. She has done research for a Foreign Affairs book on regime change in the Congo and received a Rauner Historical Accountability Fellowship to pursue an archival project on women at Dartmouth prior to coeducation.

Never interested in conventional education, Cece prioritized experiential learning in high school. She spent her junior year studying policy in Washington, DC at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership and was subsequently appointed a voting member of Manhattan Community Board 8 after she was awarded a City Council Citation. She represented her 230,000 person district on the Small Business and Education Committees.

She has studied abroad in Morocco on a US State Department Scholarship and spent time living and learning in Salamanca, Spain; Nosara, Costa Rica; and Sayulita, Mexico. Cece has also performed with the largest children’s circus in North America and continues to train professionally and with the independent troupe she founded. When she’s not exploring new corners of the world, she’s hunting for waves as a leader emeritus of Dartmouth’s surf club.