Before joining the Chef Ann Foundation, Kathleen worked as an independent consultant supporting nonprofits in grants and editorial writing. Before that, she worked in science communications and public affairs for a food technology company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout her career, she has held roles as varied as writer and editor, photographer, and assistant on a fruit and vegetable farm.

Kathleen earned dual Master’s degrees in Agriculture, Food & Environment and Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning from Tufts University. Her Master’s thesis examined the synergies and tradeoffs of co-locating solar energy production on working agricultural lands in Massachusetts.

Outside of work, she maintains a small jungle of houseplants, volunteers with an environmental nonprofit, and tinkers in film photography and darkroom printing, watercolor, and knitting. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their sassy senior cat, Emma.