Kevin Bourne, also known as "KB The Boss" or simply "KB", is a Toronto-based arts and culture journalist, media personality, screenwriter/film and TV producer, and branding and marketing strategist. His clients include everyone from New Balance and Toronto FC to Paramount Global and CBC.
Doubling as editor-in-chief of the online magazine SHIFTER, Kevin has covered some of Canada's top red carpet events, from the Juno Awards to the Canadian Screen Awards and has interviewed everyone from Kevin Hart and Fast and the Furious star Tyrese Gibson to Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, and Orange Is The New Black star Dascha Polanco. More recently, he was named one of only 340 international voters for the 81st and 82nd Golden Globe Awards and a Tomatometer-Approved Critic by Rotten Tomatoes.
The former political staffer is quickly becoming a staple in Canada's cultural landscape as both a commentator and freelancer, writing and commenting on music, film/television, fashion, and politics. He has appeared nationally as a correspondent on CBC News Network and on CBC Music as one of the hosts of the national Polaris Prize radio series "The Ten". He has also appeared locally on CTV, CBC Radio, CityNews, Newstalk 1010 and ByBlacks.com, as well as a TV commentator in the United States on Fox's Black digital TV network, Fox Soul.
During his time in Ottawa, he was the host of CBC's digital series In The Loop, a former music columnist on CBC Radio One, the co-producer of the SHIFTER x CBC mini-doc series OT Rising, writer for the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Business Journal, and a part-time TV Broadcasting professor at Algonquin College. His work as a journalist and community leader eventually landed on Ottawa Life Magazine's 2020 Best of Ottawa: Activists and Changemakers list and then as a TEDx speaker in 2021.
Now back home in Toronto, KB is poised to continue to be a champion for Black entertainment and culture alongside his wife and business partner, Koliah, through their film/TV, digital content and live experiences company SHIFTER Entertainment. After producing two short films and two digital series, they produced the unscripted reality series A Date In The Life for Bell Fibe TV1 with a number of scripted and unscripted projects written or in development.
