Kate Anderson Foley, PhD is a transformational leader with significant experience leading public school districts and states toward equitable and integrated services for all learners. Her work has been grounded in social justice and for breaking down the barriers for children who have historically been marginalized. She has led organizational change utilizing a strategic framework that ensured guaranteed and rigorous learning leading to college and career readiness for all students. Kate's deep commitment to creating nimble and responsive systems that support the whole child led to local, state, and federal reform. Kate’s systems-thinking approach has led to preventative, nimble systems that intentionally address opportunity gaps of all learners, regardless of background or circumstance, including equity-based school funding models.

Kate partners with local, state, and national organizations, education agencies, and various industries providing her expertise with the improvement process, professional learning communities, strategic planning, asset-based education policies and practices, and consulting. Kate also works closely with senior leadership across various sectors providing executive coaching aimed at creating growth-minded organizational cultures www.edpolicyconsulting.com. Kate is the author of many articles and the children’s book, Ida Finds Her Voice. www.idafindshervoice.com.