The Collaboration Conference 2015

Kate has over ten years of professional experience in creative non-profit and social enterprise development. Her work with Design Impact began in 2009 while living and working in a rural south Indian village. Since then she has grown the organization from a small idea to a full-fledged public interest design firm. She has spoken and led trainings in various settings such as TEDx, Procter & Gamble, College for Creative Studies Toyota speaker series, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Before founding Design Impact, she earned her Master’s degree in Education, taught for four years in a low-income, under-performing district, and led strategic planning and capacity building for the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, a non-profit law firm that works for criminal justice reform. She has lived and worked internationally on education and youth development initiatives in India, Jamaica, and New Zealand. In addition to leading Design Impact, she currently teaches as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Cincinnati Honors College and the Center for Creative Leadership. Kate’s work has been published through media outlets such as Fast Company, Innovations, and GOOD, and she was recently listed as one of Public Interest Design’s Top 100 Global Designers. Her experiences in corporate, non-profit, and educational settings have given her a unique ability to build diverse, cross-sector partnerships that create positive social change.