Meter & Milestones
is a woman-owned small business based in Chicago that provides bespoke childcare and academic tutoring. Meter and Milestones also offers professional writing services in the form of commissioned and on-demand typewriter poetry.
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Meet Kat Powers
Kat Powers is the owner and founder of Meter and Milestones LLC. She graduated from DePaul University with a BA in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse in 2018 where she also worked as a peer-writing tutor at The University Center for Writing-based Learning. She worked in a variety of fields before beginning her career in education by teaching at a Montessori school. She created Meter and Milestones in order to bring all of her skills, passions and talents into one cohesive business.
In addition to working with young people, Kat is a spoken word performer and typewriter poet. Kat was the 2018 Louder Than a Bomb College Slam Champion and a 2023 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards Semifinalist. She worked as a typewriter poet at the WNDR Museum for two years and her writing has been featured in Motley Magazine, 14East and Beyond Words. Currently, she produces and co-hosts Open Book Open Mic, a (nearly) weekly poetry show at The Bughouse Theater with Cory Sutter. Her full resume can be downloaded here.