Kathy has always been someone who can’t resist a good puzzle, the kind with a thousand interlocking pieces and no picture on the box. As a young person, she was drawn to the satisfaction of taking something tangled and complicated and patiently working it into order, a habit that has shaped everything from how she approaches her morning walks to how she untangles the most labyrinthine regulatory requirements. Whether she’s practicing Tai Chi, working through an audiobook, or wrangling four children and two dogs in Columbia, Maryland, Kathy brings the same steady, methodical curiosity to all of it. That instinct for finding the through-line in complexity is exactly what she offers her clients: the ability to see how all the pieces fit together and to chart a clear path forward.
With more than two decades in higher education spanning public and private institutions and the federal government, Kathy helps clients navigate program growth and development, institutional effectiveness, accreditation and licensure, graduate education, and program evaluation. She most recently served as an accreditation consultant, leading state authorization and discipline-based accreditation efforts for several colleges, and previously guided strategic enrollment planning for more than 25 graduate programs at a large state university. Her executive career includes serving as Dean of the School of Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University and Associate Provost at Goucher College, with earlier leadership roles at Morgan State, Towson University, Howard Community College, Marymount University, and The George Washington University. She also brings federal contracting experience with Trewon Technologies, leading large grant program evaluations for the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security. With seventeen years as a Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation examiner and appeals panel member, Past President of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research, an Ed.D. and MBA from UMass Amherst, an AB from Smith College, PMP certification, and a Top-Secret security clearance, Kathy combines deep institutional knowledge with a rare breadth of perspective, and a genuine commitment to helping educational leaders advance their missions.