Kate has worked with nonprofit, community and social justice organizations for the past 35 years. She has also started and run several businesses. Her formal and informal education has focused on books, writing, art, dance, theater, social enterprise, racial and health justice. Kate has lived and worked in New Jersey; Dayton, Ohio; Chicago, where she syndicated a radio drama series; and in New York City, where she ran the association for nonprofit theater, and presented and facilitated at universities and conferences nationwide.

Since moving to Connecticut, Kate led the Connecticut Giving Project for the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy and produced conferences and a 75th anniversary presentation for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Kate also produced the 57th annual International Creative Problem-Solving Institute, an international conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

For over a decade, Kate has focused on racial justice through health equity. She developed the Small Business Healthcare Network at the Universal Health Care Foundation, working with chambers of commerce and associations of Black and POC-run small businesses and sharing learnings nationally. She managed the Navigator and Assistor program at Access Health CT, which planned and implemented the statewide multi-lingual community outreach for the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

Kate was inspired to be part of RE·Center to work on systemic change for racial justice. She seeks to support the dismantling of oppressive systems and creation of new systems that lead to collective liberation. Kate loves spending time with her husband, Tom, her two grown children, Juliet and Lyle, her three cats, Miki, Lorraine and Hostess Cupcake, and dog, Enzo.