President,
Academic Travel Abroad –
Daughter of an American diplomat, Kate was raised an “expat,” living most of her youth in France where she was born. Fluent in French, Kate settled on a more “exotic” language in college, where she fell in love with Mandarin and all things Chinese. Beyond her childhood in France, Kate has lived and studied in Australia, Algeria, Ireland and Taiwan. Kate graduated from Yale with a degree in East Asian Studies and pursued a post-graduate fellowship in Chinese Literature in Taiwan before settling in Washington, D.C. Kate also graduated from Harvard Business School’s Owners and Presidents Management program in 2008. Kate began her career at ATA in 1988 as the China Program Manager and now has her hand in all aspects of Academic Travel Abroad as a business, from finance and administration to program design, marketing and customer service. Kate is a member of the National Tour Association’s Leadership Team and the Canadian Tourism Commission’s Leisure Travel Advisory board.
