Altro P’s Editor-in-Chief, Kaitlyn Karol, enjoys being creative and works as an artist in many areas. But beyond what most people know about the word ‘artist’ or what they think ‘creative’ means, Kaitlyn says it’s not what you do, but what you do with it! “Being an artist of any type, you must explore it all to the fullest extent,” she has said, “and that means not letting fear hold you back. You have to get out there and take risks, despite what others say or how many times you get rejected or canceled in our lovely cancel culture we live in now.”
It’s obvious on many levels that this magazine editor loves, adores one thing above all else: ADVENTURE! And she keeps proving that you don’t have to travel very far either to do it, as most people think you must be well-traveled to live a life of ‘adventure’ but that’s just not true. Kaitlyn has proven that you can do a lot by mostly moving around your own Tri-sate area.
She is the Founder/ Creator, Chief Writer and Publisher, Editor, as well as Art Director of Altro Perspectives Magazine. She also has been in charge of its Sales/ Marketing as a way to fund her dream in order to live as a creative type. She grew the magazine from scratch which was an outgrowth of some of her past print newsletters and ‘street/ fan zines’ from the turn of the century, (2000) that later morphed into online publishing mediums such as ‘Loyal Locals’, ‘Ask a Pro’, and other ‘Altro’ publications she created after she coined the playful and useful hybrid word, ‘altro’ which she promotes as a part-alternative/ part-retro way to live – a centrist who insists “the middle can hold” who is “trying to bring balance to an upside-down and radicalized Matrix” she says.
Kaitlyn Karol, (known to some as the less formal ‘Katie’) has been pursuing and working in the publishing field as well as other media ventures where she succeeded in the area of ad sales/marketing/ communications as well as journalism. “On the side”, she has succeeded with what she calls ‘hobby-jobs’ in the arts and entertainment field since the age of 15 when she was cast in a lead role for a college student’s film that aired on public access TV. She also wrote, location-scouted, produced, co-directed and performed in her own production for public access TV that took three years to create. She says of the experience, it was a “free film school education.”
Although she sold ads for many telemarketing companies and ad agencies along with being a part-time and even live-in nanny for many families as her ‘real job’ anchor to make ends meet, her other passions such as music became the backbone of some of her ‘side hustles’ which have included being a DJ, spinning records for local clubs and parties which she enjoyed doing for close to ten years. Now retired from that scene, she plans on launching a music channel online in the near future. This video platform will include playing music videos, interviewing bands and weaving in news briefs and stories from the online publication as well as from a podcast she is also in the midst of launching, currently in a pre-production phase with these new creative projects.
She is also planning to open an educational academy for students of various ages that will “help mend our broken culture and offer ways to level up and learn the right way since the lovely Rockefellers screwed us so bad in the public school systems.” The indie, alternative home-schooling and charter schools are her focus now as her study guides for the school’s foundation as she is still writing curriculum and “preparing to bring in an improved way to provide what the mainstream system purposely left out,” she says.
As an assistant editor and guest editor for other magazines and newspapers, before she started her own publications, Kaitlyn started out working in her hometown of Northern Kentucky as a freelance journalist and independent reporter immediately following high school. Her portfolio consists of a prolific plethora of articles and some essays/op-ed pieces. She also wrote a lot of film reviews but focused on health and music journalism where she did reviews of holistic health as well as many albums and shows/concerts, etc. She enjoyed the backstage role of interviewing local and famous bands.
She also wrote a lot of fiction and poetry along with many local, ‘splice-of-life’ stories which she contributed to publications such as, The Recorder Newspapers, The Dixie News, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Kentucky Post, Enlightenments, Everybody’s News, and the edgy-artsy Animal Eye to name only a few. Her first freelance writing assignment coupled with the ambition she put forth as ad sales manager for The Latonian led to her becoming the newspaper’s assistant editor within two months after being hired. From that time forward, she became primarily known as a writer/editor/ researcher as her main career focus.