Moderators

Katie Everett is the Executive Director of the Lynch Foundation. She joined in 1997 and was the first staff person hired for the foundation. Thus, Katie has seen the Foundation grow from $40 million to $150 million. She has overseen the investment of nearly $200 million in support of over 375 social change organizations, including some of the earliest seed investments in Teach for America, Partners in Health, and The Phoenix. A leader in education philanthropy, Katie has guided The Lynch Foundation through several nationally recognized investments in urban school systems. Katie led the establishment of The Lynch Leadership Academy, a national model for building world-class urban school leaders. She also was a leader in The Lynch Early Education Initiative, an effort that serves over 140 early childhood classrooms in Boston’s Catholic schools and the Boston Schoolyards Initiative, one of the city’s most successful public-private partnerships that restored over 80 school playgrounds. Katie served as a Founding Board Member of the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and is currently a Board Member of i2 Learning’s Boston Chapter. Katie served on the Board of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund for six years and was the Board Chair of the Eliot Innovation School for five years. She is also an active member of the Catholic School Philanthropy Working Group; the Archdiocese of Boston’s Catholic Council; the Boston Catholic Schools Support Network’s Advisory Committee; Providence College’s School of Education and Social Work Advisory Council; and the Malta Pilgrimage Foundation’s Special Advisor Group. In 2012, the Boston Business Journal honored her as one of 40 Under 40 innovators and leaders in the City of Boston, and in 2014/15 she served on Governor Baker’s Education Transition Team. Katie graduated from Notre Dame Academy and received her Bachelor’s degree from Boston College. She completed Executive Programs at the Stanford University School of Business & the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She lives in the South End neighborhood of Boston with her husband Greg and enjoys spending time with her two college-aged children.