Kara Hackett is a Fort Wayne native fascinated by what's next for northeast Indiana how it relates to other up-and-coming places around the world.
After working briefly in New York City and Indianapolis, she moved back to her hometown where she has discovered interesting people, projects, and innovations shaping the future of this place—and has been writing about them ever since. Her work has appeared in The Journal Gazette, Living Fort Wayne, Glo Magazine, FoxNews.com, and The Huffington Post.
In January 2018, Kara helped launch Input Fort Wayne, in partnership with its parent company, Issue Media Group, based in Detroit, Mich., and a coalition of regional sponsors.
“As a nurse and as an artist, my role is to make someone feel better by standing by them when they need someone to be with them. As a nurse, I may be delivering medicine. As an artist, I’m delivering beauty. Either way, I’m delivering care.”
“It took a bit of education sometimes to convince a building owner or a developer that a green roof would be a valuable part of their development. But what we found is that once you did the education and showed them the value it creates—for the habitat, for the cooling effects, and for beautification—they embraced it completely.”
From instrumental jam sessions to bouts of Irish folk songs, sea shanties, and drinking game songs, Fort Wayne is coming together around pub music as it emerges from the pandemic.