Katrice Mines

Senior Communications and Storytelling Associate

Katrice L. Mines is a writer who has spent her career using her passion for improving communities in communications roles across various sectors including media and publishing, nonprofit, education, and government.

Mines most recently served at public relations manager of Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development authority, where she expanded the agency’s outreach to key stakeholders, primarily through the media, executive visibility, content development, events, and other initiatives. Prior to that, she served for 13 years as editor of Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine — steering the publication’s forward-thinking and impactful editorial coverage of black business lifestyle news and trends. Mines has also served as a guest editor for Atlanta Magazine and is also a seasoned travel writer covering destinations around the world for Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine, Travel Noire, Atlanta Magazine and Where Magazine.

An ardent advocate for community engagement and personal development, earlier in her career she was executive director of a Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County in Sandusky, Ohio while also running Inspiring Excellence, an enrichment program for African-American adolescent girls that she founded. She currently hosts a virtual mastermind group - Of Sistren Supper Club with women from around the country.

Mines earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Kent State University and a master's degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University.