Executive Director of Communications and Marketing Edwin Birch

Email: edwin.birch@kckps.org
Phone: 913-279-2242
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Edwin Birch leads the school district’s Communications and Marketing team. As the Executive Director, Mr. Birch is an experienced communications and public relations professional who takes pride in telling the District’s stories and promoting the District’s vision, mission, and strategic priorities through the various communications platforms. 

Mr. Birch has more than 20 years of experience providing effective public relations and communications leadership. Prior to his current role at KCKPS, he served as the Public Information Officer for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas (UG). During his employment at the UG, he was responsible for media relations, social media, the government’s website, event planning and announcements related to groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings for major economic development projects, and upgrading the government’s local tv channel, UGTV.

Before joining the UG in 2008, Birch worked for what was then the Kansas City, Missouri School District as the Director of Public Relations. Under his leadership, the Public Relations Department received awards from the National Schools Public Relations Association (NSPRA) for their website design, District newspaper, and other communications publications.

At KCKPS, his communications and marketing team has received a total of 19 awards from NSPRA and KanSPRA in three years. 

Mr. Birch is a native of Kansas City, Kansas, and has worked in television news as an executive producer at KMBC-TV 9 and Metro Sports at Time Warner Cable and as an assignment editor at WDAF-TV 4 while attending college.

Mr. Birch holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas.