Katherine Georges

Senior Manager, Grants and Institutional Partnerships

New York City, United States

New York, NY, United States

Katherine joined KickStart in January of 2020, and manages our institutional and corporate grant portfolio. Katherine works with KickStart’s teams across Africa to develop and monitor project performance and evaluation, and forge strategic partnerships to extend our impacts. Katherine also drives KickStart’s communications strategy to support advocacy and outreach goals.

Katherine holds a MA in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and a MSC in Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics. Before working for KickStart, she served in the US Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa. There, she worked with rural women to build community capacities in infant and maternal care, nutritional security, and malaria prevention.