MKCREATIVE | media is a full service video production, creative services, WordPress website builder, and social media marketing agency with clients in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and New York City. We work with social enterprises, colleges, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations to help them share their stories with stakeholders, news media, and followers on their websites and social networks.
Our mission is to help our clients create positive change in the communities they serve through the strategic use of digital media training workshops in graphic design, slide presentations, photography, and video production. We also offered multi-camera video production services to NGOs and universities looking to take their client, donor, volunteer or community outreach narratives to a wider audience online and beyond.
Our Team
CONSULTANT: Creative Director // Video Producer // Educator //
MARCO KATHURIA, Founder, MyMotorhomeLife
Marco Kathuria is a part-time university lecturer, community media instructor, and independent video producer. He works with the non-profit sector in the Mid-Atlantic region and in New York City.
Prior to joining MKCREATIVE, LLC in 1998, Marco worked as a freelance producer at public television station WNET-13 (New York City) and KERA-TV (Dallas, Texas). While freelancing at KERA, Marco co-founded a Dallas-based television production company—Mystery Trout Productions, Inc.—with fellow NYC-transplant, Charlie Papaceno, a producer who had previously worked for A&E Cable Network in Manhattan. Mystery Trout conceived and developed a music television pilot targeted at public television and premium cable audiences and a second series concept, “Metro 214“, a cultural and lifestyle magazine show.
Marco Kathuria has won a number of other film and television awards as a producer, including the USA Film Festival “Finalist” for “Metro 214“. He also received two EMMA Awards for the television pilot, “617 Boston: An Arts and Lifestyle Show“. “Just Another Day”, an active shooter safety training film co-produced by Marco Kathuria, received a Platinum MarCom Award in the video training category by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals in 2018 as well as a Peer Gold Award, the top prize in the education/training video category, from the Television, Internet & Video Association of D.C. in November of the same year. The film was also recognized as one of the Official Selections in the Accolade Global Film Competition and the IndieFest Film Awards in 2019.
A graduate of Newcastle University Business School (UK), Marco read Economics and also developed a love of documentary photography, theatre, DJ’ing, and live television while attending Tyne Tees Television’s weekly The Tube music and pop culture show. He later earned his Masters degree in Broadcasting from Boston University before transitioning from commercial media to public broadcasting and the non-profit sector.
CONSULTANT: Public Relations //
LINDA CRONIN-GROSS, Principal, LCG Communications
Born and raised in Queens, New York, Linda Cronin-Gross graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York and has been in the public relations business for more than 35 years.
For the past 25 years, she has been the president of her own firm, LCG Communications. She has spent most of her public relations career in the non-profit sector, strategizing and implementing campaigns for them, “cause” campaigns, labor unions and small businesses.
She has also provided communications and media support for many political campaigns, including those for NY City Council, NY State Assembly and Senate, Congress and NY City Mayor. She served as Communications Director for Sal Albanese, who ran in the Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor in 2017.
She is a sought after lecturer and teacher and has lead classes in media and media training for labor unions, grassroots groups, funders, political candidates and elected officials. She has taught at Hunter College and Cornell University’s Union Leadership Program and is one of the original Huffington Post bloggers.
She has lived in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn for more than 30 years, has two amazing children, Liam and Amanda and two grandchildren, Maddie and Aiden.
CONSULTANT: Brand Development //Social Media Marketing //
RICK KNIGHT, Principal, RBKnight Creative Services
“To arrive at the best solution, it is necessary to possess an intense drive to understand the client.”
Rick Knight is a freelance creative with over 30 years experience in graphic design; 20 years as a social documentary, event, and portrait photographer, and was working in the social media space before the term itself was coined.
Rick has led in-house teams and freelanced on-site and remotely for a variety of agencies and brands. A former Apple employee, he’s inspired by technology and its influence on human behavior.
As the in-house photographer for MKCREATIVE | media, Rick covers live events such as galas, fundraisers, and social gatherings for our nonprofit clients. Having spend years working as an event photographer and also bringing his signature candid photography style to projects, Rick’s photographs standout not only in terms of composition and the use of color, but also in how Rick approaches color grading and re-framing his shots before delivering the “Selects” to our clients.
Rick often works in partnership with MKCREATIVE | media and public relations firm LCG Communications in New York City. In his role as social media manager, Rick combines his graphic design and photography talents with his deep knowledge of social media marketing. He has created content for charitable organizations, non-profits, and cause campaigns. Rick has written and managed tweeting campaigns for celebrities such as Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo (so, the Hulk and, you know, the Hulk), Susan Sarandon, John Leguizamo, and Private Joker himself, Matthew Modine.
Rick actively supports and promotes the arts, currently stirring up interest in a proposed arts district in Youngstown, Ohio. Previously, Rick provided social media and marketing support to fine artists and galleries in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe for nearly ten years.
Brand Identity & Street Photography
