Kissing LionsKissing Lions
A monstera leaf in deep shadow against a dark backdrop, framed by a torn paper edge.
Fierce. Yet, lovable.

Public Relations
for the Bold, Brilliant & Becoming.

Kissing Lions Public Relations is a boutique consultancy shaping thoughtful visibility, public narrative, communications, partnerships, and unforgettable moments for founders, creatives, organizations, cultural leaders, and mission-driven brands.

We help people become more deeply seen — through story, strategy, media, events, and meaningful connection.

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Your story matters.

Fierce yet lovable media strategy.

We believe visibility should deepen trust, reveal truth, strengthen relationships, and move meaningful stories into public life.

Kissing Lions Public Relations is an independent, W/MBE-certified communications consultancy founded by Kahshanna Evans, with more than ten years of experience delivering strategic communications, public relations, marketing, and public information services for purpose-driven organizations. Founded to address gaps in representation, nuance, and informed storytelling within traditional media ecosystems, the firm has grown into a trusted partner for organizations navigating complex narratives, high-visibility initiatives, and community-facing engagement. Our work spans public agencies, nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, foundations, and mission-aligned brands, with a consistent emphasis on clarity, credibility, and human-centered storytelling.

We specialize in developing and executing integrated communications strategies that combine traditional media relations with digital engagement, experiential activations, and community outreach—always aligned with organizational values, public accountability, and long-term reputation management.

Kissing Lions Public Relations brings a multidisciplinary perspective informed by backgrounds in communications, public relations, fashion, film, television, entertainment, and published journalism. This allows us to translate complex or technical information into accessible narratives, while maintaining professional standards required for public-facing communications.

Public relations with
Discernment.
Brand storytelling with
Soul.
Communications built on
Trust, not noise.

Thoughtful Storytelling

What We Do

Strategic visibility, thoughtful storytelling, and public presence designed to move people — and move the story forward.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

visibility & public narrative

Founded to address gaps in representation, nuance, and informed storytelling within traditional media ecosystems, the firm has grown into a trusted partner for organizations navigating complex narratives, high-visibility initiatives, and community-facing engagement.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

thought partnership

We specialize in developing and executing integrated communications strategies that combine traditional media relations with digital engagement, experiential activations, and community outreach—always aligned with organizational values, public accountability, and long-term reputation management.

BRANDING STRATEGY

visual storytelling

Our work spans public agencies, nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, foundations, and mission-aligned brands, with a consistent emphasis on clarity, credibility, and human-centered storytelling.

Our Vision

&Values

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Mission

Kissing Lions Public Relations is an independent consultancy that specializes in brand, marketing-communications, and public relations strategy. We join a host of independent and next-gen independent consultancies that aim to democratize PR. We support purpose-driven brands and change agents to increase visibility, expand brand awareness, navigate media relations, and support capacity-building through “Community Building Through Communications” leadership strategy and training. We maintain an adaptive, collaborative spirit and look to grow as partners with our clients.

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Vision

Kissing Lions Public Relations is proud to have worked with purpose-driven organizations, partners, and specialists for 10+ years as the primary driving force for planning, executing and managing branding, marketing-communications, experiential events, and public relations initiatives in the tech, hospitality, startup, communications, and wellbeing industries. We are seasoned content creators, storytellers, and published writers that value a trauma-informed perspective on equity, human rights, corporate citizenship, organizing, and systems transformation. We are process-minded creatives with an affinity for developing leaders, empowering brands, and fueling movements.

fierce yet lovable

Approaches

Our work spans public agencies, nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, foundations, and mission-aligned brands, with a consistent emphasis on clarity, credibility, and human-centered storytelling.

Cultural Fluency

cultural fluency

  • ➛ Media relations, outreach & training
  • ➛ Drafting Press Materials
  • ➛ Executive Positioning
  • ➛ Fractional PR Leadership
  • ➛ Stakeholder & Community Relations
  • ➛ Storyline Development
  • ➛ Award submissions
  • ➛ Drafting talking points & speeches
  • ➛ Crisis Comms Best Practices
  • ➛ Partnerships & Sponsorships

Editorial Intelligence

editorial intelligence

  • ➛ Fractional Marketing Communications Leadership
  • ➛ Social Media Strategy
  • ➛ Project + Event Planning, Direction & Promotion
  • ➛ Grant Mgmt. & Fulfillment Reporting
  • ➛ Operations & Infrastructure
  • ➛ Ethical Applications to AI
  • ➛ Organizational spokesperson(s)
  • ➛ Content Development & Creation
  • ➛ Article writing & bylines
  • ➛ Website + presentation design
  • ➛ CSR

Creative Rebellion

creative rebellion

  • ➛ Brand Assessment
  • ➛ Communications Leadership
  • ➛ Website, Presentation & Landing Page Design
  • ➛ Strategic Thought Leadership
  • ➛ Educational Materials, Interactive Workbooks, etc.
  • ➛ Style guide
  • ➛ Strategic Asset Design/Positioning (e.g. LinkedIn, Substack)

Differentiators

The difference is in the depth.

Our work blends cultural fluency, infrastructure, strategic rigor, storytelling, and deeply relational public engagement.

Community Building Through Communications™ Framework

Relationships are the strategy.

Through the Community Building Through Communications™ framework created by Founder Kahshanna Evans, local, national, and global communications can establish and develop its role in movement-focused community organizing, mobilization, and advocacy. This innovative approach is a strategy that supports grassroots organizers as much as it supports Corporate Citizenship.

As a framework, it is a capacity builder for impacted communities to own their own cultural narrative by creating equity, access, education, transparency, and policy reform—grounded in trauma-informed awareness, trauma-informed practices, community-focused storytelling, and media literacy programming that acknowledges adversities and atrocities while uplifting culture and centering repair. For Corporate Citizenship, executive leaders explore organizational policies through a trauma-informed lens.

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Kissing Lions Media Push™

Time is of the essence.

A Media Push™ is a strategic, short-term media activation designed to amplify one clear, newsworthy announcement—such as a launch, milestone, event, report, or leadership moment—through intentional storytelling and targeted outreach.

Created by Kissing Lions Public Relations as a resource for small and mission-driven organizations, the Media Push™ offers a focused alternative to long-lead public relations campaigns, while still setting clients up for sustained visibility over time.

This is not a plug-and-play PR product. Every Media Push™ is custom-built to ensure quality, credibility, and alignment with your long-term positioning.

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Events, Experiences
& Public Moments

Drawing from deep roots in fashion, film, television, and entertainment, we understand that events are more than logistics—they are living expressions of identity, influence, and cultural relevance.

From intimate gatherings to large-scale launches, Kissing Lions Public Relations produces experiences designed to be remembered—and strategically aligned to what comes next.

We support experiential events, launches, activations, galas, fashion presentations, press conferences, red carpets, and public-facing moments across every stage of planning, development, and implementation.

Our approach combines creative direction with operational rigor. From sponsorship strategy, partnerships, guest management, event splash pages, media coordination, and VIP experience design to content planning, audience engagement, tracking, and post-event reporting, we help clients move from concept to execution with clarity and care.

What distinguishes our work is thoughtful partnership around the moments between the moments: identifying brand-worthy opportunities for storytelling, optimizing content capture in real time, aligning social and public relations strategy, and translating experiences into momentum long after the lights go down.

Because successful events are not only beautiful—they are measurable, relational, and built to deepen visibility, trust, and impact.

  • ➛ Launches & campaign moments
  • ➛ Galas & fundraising experiences
  • ➛ Fashion shows, cultural events & pop-ups
  • ➛ Press conferences & media moments
  • ➛ Red carpet & VIP wrangling
  • ➛ Sponsorships & partnerships
  • ➛ Guest management & communications
  • ➛ Event splash pages & content ecosystems
  • ➛ Social + PR strategy integration
  • ➛ Content capture strategy & brand storytelling
  • ➛ Post-event reporting & continuous quality improvement (CQI)
  • ➛ Project management, infrastructure & workflow optimization

Campaigns

Selected work, stories
& collaborations.

Customer stories
Selected client logos over an aerial cityscape of Manhattan at dusk.
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Kissing Lions Public Relations brought not only tactical execution, but also valuable industry insight that helped ground our aspirational vision in realistic planning. They were thoughtful, highly creative, personable, and consistent in their communication, and they demonstrated an ability to adapt to evolving needs while maintaining focus on project goals. Their work helped us engage new audiences, strengthen our public narrative, and ensure our launch activities were executed with care and intention.
— Natalie Bell
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Kahshanna provided rapid-turnaround strategic media support that included project assessment and research, storyline and narrative development, event and media planning, crafting and distributing press materials, and managing red carpet guest relations for special and VIP attendees. Her work was deeply aligned with Ackerman's values and mission, ensuring that all communications authentically reflected the spirit, purpose, and impact of the Institute and its community. Throughout the collaboration, Kahshanna brought a thoughtful, equity-centered approach to communications—centering Ackerman as a beacon of excellence and hope while remaining attentive to the nuances and sensitivities of a milestone celebration.
— Ackerman Institute for the Family
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Kahshanna is simply brilliant. It's commonplace for people to claim their worldview is "unique," but Kahshanna is one of those people who *is* truly one-of-a-kind. She approaches the world, life, and work multi-dimensionally and empathetically, dissecting problems from all possible angles. She has a profound and poetic way with words and framing issues, challenges, and solutions that combines artistry with practicality. She is people-focused but also a systems-thinker who is expert at spotting patterns and ushering people through discovery processes to find truth, wisdom, and carve out a vision.
— Alexandra Pallas
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I came to know Kahshanna's fierce work ethic when I hired her to work at QUARTERS, a global real-estate startup that conceptualized co-living. The membership-based, tech-enabled corporate housing for millennials offered weekly community events and stylish shared accommodations. I hired Kahshanna based on her experience in diverse and social environments. Kahshanna exceeded my expectations by maintaining a can-do attitude. Kahshanna has exceptional troubleshooting skills and exercises both passion and discretion under pressure to perform.
— Evan Kasper
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The outcomes of this partnership were significant. In addition to several industry-specific media placements, Kissing Lions' strategic leadership contributed to a cover story and six-page spread in Dance Magazine, reaching an estimated four million readers. The engagement also supported broader institutional recognition, including an official Mayoral Proclamation designating July 31 as Urban Bush Women Day in New York City, as well as international acknowledgment through a Movement and Legacy Award in Australia.
— Makeda Smith
“
Kissing Lions Public Relations brought not only tactical execution, but also valuable industry insight that helped ground our aspirational vision in realistic planning. They were thoughtful, highly creative, personable, and consistent in their communication, and they demonstrated an ability to adapt to evolving needs while maintaining focus on project goals. Their work helped us engage new audiences, strengthen our public narrative, and ensure our launch activities were executed with care and intention.
— Natalie Bell
“
Kahshanna provided rapid-turnaround strategic media support that included project assessment and research, storyline and narrative development, event and media planning, crafting and distributing press materials, and managing red carpet guest relations for special and VIP attendees. Her work was deeply aligned with Ackerman's values and mission, ensuring that all communications authentically reflected the spirit, purpose, and impact of the Institute and its community. Throughout the collaboration, Kahshanna brought a thoughtful, equity-centered approach to communications—centering Ackerman as a beacon of excellence and hope while remaining attentive to the nuances and sensitivities of a milestone celebration.
— Ackerman Institute for the Family
“
Kahshanna is simply brilliant. It's commonplace for people to claim their worldview is "unique," but Kahshanna is one of those people who *is* truly one-of-a-kind. She approaches the world, life, and work multi-dimensionally and empathetically, dissecting problems from all possible angles. She has a profound and poetic way with words and framing issues, challenges, and solutions that combines artistry with practicality. She is people-focused but also a systems-thinker who is expert at spotting patterns and ushering people through discovery processes to find truth, wisdom, and carve out a vision.
— Alexandra Pallas
“
I came to know Kahshanna's fierce work ethic when I hired her to work at QUARTERS, a global real-estate startup that conceptualized co-living. The membership-based, tech-enabled corporate housing for millennials offered weekly community events and stylish shared accommodations. I hired Kahshanna based on her experience in diverse and social environments. Kahshanna exceeded my expectations by maintaining a can-do attitude. Kahshanna has exceptional troubleshooting skills and exercises both passion and discretion under pressure to perform.
— Evan Kasper
“
The outcomes of this partnership were significant. In addition to several industry-specific media placements, Kissing Lions' strategic leadership contributed to a cover story and six-page spread in Dance Magazine, reaching an estimated four million readers. The engagement also supported broader institutional recognition, including an official Mayoral Proclamation designating July 31 as Urban Bush Women Day in New York City, as well as international acknowledgment through a Movement and Legacy Award in Australia.
— Makeda Smith
Editorial black and white portrait of the Kissing Lions founder in soft window light.

The Founder

We help people recognize the genius they already carry — and shape stories worthy of being seen.

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#keepingitkah

The story behind
Kissing Lions.

Kahshanna Evans is a branding, content development, and creative systems strategist with over a decade of experience building cohesive, mission-aligned creative ecosystems for nonprofits, foundations, and purpose-driven organizations. With a rare combination of full-cycle content production expertise and deep systems thinking, her work sits at the intersection of story, design, public health, and climate resilience, supporting organizations in translating complex missions into compelling, accessible, and emotionally resonant visual and narrative experiences across print, digital, and experiential platforms.

Kahshanna brings a rare combination of full-cycle content production expertise and deep systems thinking. She has led creative strategy and execution across all stages of development—conceptualization, brand architecture, visual identity, content creation, production management, and asset deployment—ensuring consistency, integrity, and impact across channels. Her work spans annual reports, educational toolkits, newsletters, social content, interactive digital assets, event materials, video series, and learning platforms, often serving as both strategic lead and hands-on creative director.