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Kate is 23 years old and has comprehensive experience in youth leadership training, international development issues, environmentalism, and conflict resolution training. She works for EcoVentures International which combines micro-enterprise creation with environmental and natural resource management in order to train and inspire youth to become environmental entrepreneurs. She also sees a strong need to work with youth in the United States to inform their consumption patterns as well as inspire the creation of environmental enterprises that become part of the growing worldwide movement to create an eco-economy.
During fall of 2003, Kate ran a three month project for EcoVentures International in Lushoto, Tanzania. She trained 26 young people from the area in environmental entreprise creation which resulted from an assets and needs assessment of the Lushoto area. It was an amazing and incredible learning experience for Kate on a personal level and for her work at EcoVentures International.
Kate has worked for a Quaker Summer Program for seven years, and for the past two years led the Leadership training programs for teenagers that utilize a wilderness experience to train young people in conflict resolution and community building and instill principles of environmental respect and sustainability. Quaker principles of peaceful resolution, acceptance, respect for nature, and communtuy provide the basis for much of her work.
Kate studied in Beijing, China during the last year of high school and did work with children during her stay as well as taught primary school english for a month in Hanoi, Vietnam. Upon graduating from high school, she began at Tufts University in Boston where she graduated with a B.A. in History and African Studies as well as a Minor in Child Development. Throughout university, Kate took part in several different youth empowerment programs including Peace Games which promotes non-violence and conflict resolution in schools. During her junior year, Kate studied and lived in Harare, Zimbabwe where she focused on Southern African history and environmentalism. Her senior year at Tufts, Kate wrote a honors thesis on the role of economic, political and racial issues in the U.S. involvement in the Belgian Congo during the 1950s. She also took part in the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship program which focused on Global Inequities. Through this program, Kate and two other students put together a delegation of 22 Tufts' undergraduate and graduate students to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Kate continues to work with Tufts to create sustainable development initiatives within that community.
Last year, she completed the John Kenneth Galbraith Fellowship with Americans for Democratic Action where she conducted research on Environmental and Social entrepreneurship as a means to create Sustainable Development. Kate is currently working on several projects with youth to engage them in learning about sustainable development and the world through eco-entrepreneurship projects as Program Manager for EcoVentures International.
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