Kathryn was born in England and grew up in Waterloo, Ontario. She spent the last decade in the Bay Area working with a variety of non-profit organizations, including the urban planning policy group SPUR, Leadership San Jose, and the Digital Moose Lounge, a Canadian community bridging group. Now back in Canada, Kathryn works as Senior Research Officer at the School of Cities, University of Toronto, where she focuses on research and partnership engagement in infrastructure, transit-oriented communities, and equitable development.
Her passion is creating opportunities for people to form meaningful connections with each other, and with big, complicated ideas, and she maintains active connections with academia through hosting a salon series featuring speakers from universities across North America. Kathryn holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Toronto, and recently completed a Master of City Planning at UC Berkeley, where her research centred on transportation, infrastructure planning, and economic development.
