Help us welcome aboard our new Frederator Networks Social Media Coordinator, Kirsten “Kiki” Wagstaff. Based at Frederator’s NYC office, Kirsten will help oversee all Channel Frederator and Cartoon Hangover social media activities. Kiki is awesome, fun, has a great accent … and she’s already online reading and re-blogging your posts, answering your questions and checking out all the great fan art.
Kiki is taking over a lot of the day-to-day social media responsibilities from our guy Cade Hiser. Not to worry, Cade isn’t going anywhere, he’ll be working more on the network side of things, and never fear he’ll continue to host Hungover with Cade on Cartoon Hangover and co-host Toy Pizza on Channel Frederator.
While Kiki was born in Wisconsin, she was raised in Singapore and New Zealand. Growing up Kiki developed a love for animation, specifically falling for anime titles including Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon and Samurai Pizza Cats. After finally wrangling her parents into getting cable TV (there are harrowing stories of what it took to convince her folks), Kiki discovered Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Laboratory among other animation classics.
Now that she’s grown up (it’s a chronological thing), Kiki is a huge fan of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s work … saying, “Howl’s Moving Castle is my favvvvvvv.” Her other current animation favs are Adventure Time and Daria … oh and obviously Bravest Warriors and Bee and Puppycat.
With a college degree in her back pocket (it might still be there), and a couple of years of marketing and PR under her belt with Sony Music NZ and other entertainment companies, Kiki packed her bags (cue packing your bags music) and set out for NYC. Kiki freely admits that upon her arrival here, “I was in total culture shock!” But, now two-and-a-half years later, she “can’t get enough of this city.” In fact, you might catch her doing stand up comedy around town.
You can also follow Kiki on Twitter (@kikimcfuggs) and Instagram (@kikimcfuggs).
– Gwen