Development Coordinator
Kate is a desert transplant from the Midwest. The daughter of an English professor and a botany teacher, she inherited her love of stories from her father and her reverence for the natural world from her mother. Kate loves connecting with donors, hearing their stories, and learning what they love about WGM.
Kate first came to Tucson as a volunteer with the humanitarian-aid group No More Deaths, and quickly fell in love with the beauty of the Sonoran Desert and the community of activists she found here. She went on to work with the Earlham College Border Studies Program (BSP), a semester-long, immersive study-away program based in Tucson, for nearly a decade. Most recently, she served as Fundraising Coordinator for No More Deaths.
Kate holds a BA in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from Beloit College and concurrent Masters degrees in Social Work and Public Administration from the University of Washington-Seattle.
Her informal titles include mother to two small children, stargazer, animal lover, and desert-aid worker. When she’s not working, you can find her hiking, horseback riding, camping, or otherwise wandering the wild places of Southern Arizona.