Kota Babcock, Arts and Culture Director
Kota Babcock is the 2021-22 arts & culture director for The Collegian and began the role in summer 2021. He’s a fourth-year at Colorado State University studying journalism and media communication.
Babcock grew up in Denver and immersed himself in the local alternative rock scene in middle and high school, looking up to writers at Westword. Additionally, he participated in marching band and won fifth place in the Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver’s Failure Awards after creating a sculpture out of a book. While he originally planned to study creative writing at art school, Babcock found his home in student media at CSU.
Currently, he serves as a mentor with All The TEA (teach, empower, advocate), an HIV-focused group within a Denver LGBTQ+ space. He works with KCSU as the news director. In his free time, he takes fun pictures of his bearded dragon, Sunshine, and makes dioramas of movie and video game scenes.
In his work as arts & culture director, he hopes to feature CSU’s cultural centers and lesser-known local artists and musicians in ways they haven’t been previously. He looks forward to a year of writing and working with the local community to express their stories accurately.
Kota Babcock can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com or on Twitter @kotababcock.
