Dr. Kate Baxter serves as executive director of the Los Angeles and New York chapters. Kate has spent the past 20 years in higher education. Much of her career has centered around student development with a focus on retention, diversity programs, and leadership programs. Her first role working with undergraduate women at MIT prompted a career long commitment to creating programs and services that cultivated strong, empowered women.
While serving as the director of the Women in Engineering Program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Kate worked to create a community that supported the current undergraduate women studying engineering, as well as pipeline programs to attract more women to the field. Kate also worked as the dean of freshmen at NYU's College of Arts and Science, executive director of alumni relations at Columbia Business School and most recently at Princeton University as Assistant Dean of the faculty. Her experience in academia has always included a fierce passion for creating greater opportunities around access and equity for women.
Kate has a BA from Villanova University and an MA in student personnel administration from Teachers College at Columbia University; she earned her doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Southern California with a dissertation focused on undergraduate women in the STEM fields. Originally from Westchester County, New York, Kate has lived throughout the northeast and in Los Angeles, and considers both NY and LA home.
