Kate established and leads the Whidbey Island Insight Meditation Group. She is also a regular guest teacher at the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society. Kate is a mentor for two programs taught by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach: The Power of Awareness, a popular online course in mindfulness meditation, and the MIndfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, a two-year internationally accredited program. Kate has taught mindfulness meditation to veterans, faith-based groups, at universities & colleges, government agencies, and in community settings in the US and Canada.
Kate has had a Buddhist meditation practice for about twenty years and has studied in the Tibetan and Vipassana/Insight traditions. She is a graduate of the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and the Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, offered by the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies.
Kate has had a Buddhist meditation practice for about twenty years and has studied in the Tibetan and Vipassana/Insight traditions. She is a graduate of the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and the Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, offered by the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies.
Born in England, Kate earned a bachelor’s degree with special honors in biochemistry from Sheffield University (1978) and a doctorate from Somerville College at Oxford University (1981). She emigrated to Canada in 1982 and was asked to set up and manage the City of Toronto’s Environmental Protection Office – the first local government environmental office in Canada. Then in the early 1990s, she moved to Ottawa and established a successful environmental policy consulting company which provided services to the Canadian federal government, international agencies and non-profit and community groups.
By 2000, she became frustrated by government inaction and went back to school to study social change for sustainability. In 2002, she received a masters’ degree in cultural anthropology and social transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Later that year, Kate accepted a faculty position at Antioch University Seattle teaching in its M.A. program in Environment & Community. In 2007, she became director of its Center for Creative Change and served in this role until 2010, taking an early retirement in 2016. Kate has taught at other colleges and universities in the US, Canada and the UK and is now Senior Fellow at the Whidbey Institute and Professor Emerita at Antioch University.
Later that year, Kate accepted a faculty position at Antioch University Seattle teaching in its M.A. program in Environment & Community. In 2007, she became director of its Center for Creative Change and served in this role until 2010, taking an early retirement in 2016. Kate has taught at other colleges and universities in the US, Canada and the UK and is now Senior Fellow at the Whidbey Institute and Professor Emerita at Antioch University.
Over the years, Kate has served on the boards of many governmental and nongovernmental organizations, including the International Joint Commission, the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Environmental Law Association, the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health, and the Sustainable Path Foundation.
She has received service and academic awards for her work and has spoken at local, national, and international conferences. Her written work has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals. Her first book, The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, was published by Rowman & Littlefield and was selected as one of the top ten books on sustainability published in 2013. Her second book, Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times , was published by New Society Publishers and won the Grand Prize awarded by the Nautilus Book Awards for books published in 2018.
Kate lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband George.
She has received service and academic awards for her work and has spoken at local, national, and international conferences. Her written work has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals. Her first book, The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, was published by Rowman & Littlefield and was selected as one of the top ten books on sustainability published in 2013. Her second book, Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times , was published by New Society Publishers and won the Grand Prize awarded by the Nautilus Book Awards for books published in 2018.
Kate lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband George.