Kate serves as Executive Vice President at Regional Plan Association, providing leadership and strategic direction to advance RPA’s mission toward a more resilient, prosperous, and livable New York City metropolitan region.

Kate joined RPA in 2016 to manage outreach for the Fourth Regional Plan. Since joining, she has strengthened the organization’s advocacy initiatives and strategic communications. She led RPA’s work for a New York City congestion pricing program, successfully advocated for the Interborough Express, established the Healthy Regions Planning Exchange, built coalitions to help address the region’s affordable housing crisis, and co-authored a number of RPA reports.

Kate has worked for 25 years for more equitable and climate friendly transportation and land use in the New York metropolitan region. She has helped secure billions of dollars in new funding for transit, cycling, walking, and sustainable development projects. She is deeply committed to addressing the region’s housing affordability and climate challenges and creating a more inclusive society.

Previously, Kate served as assistant commissioner for government and community affairs at the New York City Department of Transportation. She spent a decade at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, serving as executive director from 2007 until 2012. Kate started her career at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as an urban park ranger in Brooklyn and has also worked at the Municipal Art Society and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Kate is widely published and cited in the media and has served on the New York City Sustainability Advisory Board, the MTA Fare and Toll Evasion Blue Ribbon Panel, and the Newark360 Master Plan Steering Committee. In 2025, she received the City and State Above and Beyond Award: Women.

Kate has a master’s in urban planning from New York University, a bachelor’s in earth and environmental sciences from Wesleyan University and is an alumna of the International Honors Program. She is married to an urban sociology professor at the City University of New York and together they have two children and two dogs. When she is not working, she can be found riding her e-bike, gardening, or cheering on her kids from the sidelines of a soccer field. She is the only person on staff who has lived in all three of RPA’s states - NY, NJ and CT.