Experience

Kate (she/her) founded Create Today, a certified minority- and woman-owned business enterprise, in 2017. Client work includes a strategic business plan for a contemporary art museum; a feasibility study for a new arts and cultural facility in Millcreek, Utah; a program evaluation of the Yale/Goldman Sachs Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures; a feasibility study for a new performing arts facility in Murray, Utah; a Mellon Foundation funded planning and evaluation project with a major American Symphony Orchestra; a market research and strategic planning project for the City of Elgin, Illinois; a strategic business plan for the Stamford Arts and Culture Commission in Connecticut; a stint as the Interim Director of grant programs at an arts council in New York State; a strategic plan for Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in New York; and an operations analysis for a new partnership between Long Wharf Theatre and the Shubert Theatre in downtown New Haven.

Kate is an adjunct lecturer in the arts management program at Purchase College, State University of New York, and has served as an advisory panelist with the New York State Council on the Arts.

Prior to founding Create Today, Kate was a management consultant at AMS Planning and Research Corp. for over 11 years. Kate also has experience in the field of arts management, having worked six years at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As Registration Manager for the entire range of educational programs and events at the Kennedy Center, her responsibilities included all aspects of running a box office for a major presenting organization: marketing, sales, show settlements, customer service, front-of-house, and oversight of the safety and welfare of hundreds of thousands of school-aged children, chaperones, and teachers annually.

In addition to her professional work, Kate serves as Co-President of the local PTA Council, Grants Manager and Assistant Treasurer for the local PTA units, and founded and serves as President of the local Music Department Booster Association coordinating volunteers and fundraising to support the local high school chorus, band, and orchestra.

Kate is based in Westchester, New York and has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Music from Bryn Mawr College.