Kate joined The Community Foundation in January 2019. She facilitates donor requests, assists in community leadership initiatives and scholarship fund processes, and provides general assistance for the local Montgomery County office in development, communications, and event planning. She came to Maryland from Texas, where she was born and raised and obtained an undergraduate degree in Human Development and Nonprofit Management from the University of Houston. She then served as program coordinator of a Houston area Meals on Wheels program, which is where her excitement for philanthropy began.