Kate Clark

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About Kate Clark

Kate Clark, MPA, is Chief of Staff & Partnerships at The Kennedy Forum (TKF). At TKF she facilitates and manages new partnerships related to substance use and mental health care policy and strategic planning for the organization. In this position, she is able to use her lived experience as a person in long-term recovery to contribute to addressing the MH/SUD epidemics in our country. Kate is experienced in strategic partnership development, capacity building, advocacy, planning and program development. Areas of particular interest include the substance use and mental health crisis; healthy aging; and community and employee wellness. Prior to her current position, she worked at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) as the director of strategic initiatives. From 2008-2017, Kate was the planner for policy and program development at Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA), where she developed two nationally award-winning and replicated programs: Age-friendly Philadelphia and GenPhilly (Generation Appreciation Philadelphia). Before to moving to Philadelphia, she initiated and managed the City of Syracuse’s first public art program; directed the City of New York’s Historical Signs Program; and conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar on public-private partnerships and public space management. From 2013-14 Clark completed a Hartford/Atlantic Philanthropies Health and Aging Policy Fellowship, advising the Office of the Surgeon General on healthy aging issues related to the Affordable Care Act’s National Prevention Strategy. She received her master’s in public administration at the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.