Named director of strategic communications in 2023, Kate Shatzkin leads professionals in providing communications strategies and support for the Foundation. Before joining the Foundation in 2013 as the leader of programmatic communications, she served as vice president for marketing and communications at the National Summer Learning Association, which works to provide summer learning opportunities for children in low-income families. She spent much of her career in journalism as an editor and reporter for The Baltimore Sun, The Seattle Times and The Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass.
Shatzkin graduated from Haverford College and has a master’s in studies of law from Yale Law School.