Kate Wolford

Kate Wolford is president of the McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation that seeks to improve quality of life for present and future generations through grant making, collaboration, impact investing, and strategic policy reform. During her tenure at McKnight, she has spearheaded its development of climate mitigation and sustainability efforts, and its impact investing program, which further leverages the Foundation’s endowment to achieve its goals. Prior to joining McKnight in 2006, Wolford spent 13 years as president of Lutheran World Relief, a global grant-making and policy advocacy organization, after two years as its program director for Latin America. Previously, she worked on humanitarian and community-based efforts in Latin America.