Kathryn Furano was appointed Senior Program Officer in March 2009. Prior to joining the Foundation, Kathryn worked as an independent consultant on education and youth development projects sponsored by a range of private foundations and nonprofit intermediary organizations in California. In addition to serving as a senior consultant with Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), where she helped launch the Foundation’s College and Career Connections Fund, Kathryn worked with Youth Development Strategies on evaluations of Boys and Girls Clubs of America’s Club Tech and Triple Play programs; supported the development of a Community Impact grantmaking strategy at the United Way of Silicon Valley; and conducted an analysis of staffing needs in California after-school programs for Children Now. Previously, Kathryn was a Resource Manager at the Stupski Foundation, a San Francisco–based operating foundation dedicated to district-level school reform. There, she funded and provided direct operational support to high schools at several Stupski partner districts throughout the country. Before joining Stupski, Kathryn served as Director of Policy and Program Development at P/PV, where she managed a multimillion-dollar youth development demonstration and participated in several research studies, including examinations of the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring model and several AmeriCorps programs. Prior to joining the staff at P/PV, Kathryn worked with the West Philadelphia Improvement Corps, where she established and oversaw evening and Saturday community schools, as well as a construction program for high school students that included in-classroom skills development and after-school housing renovation projects. Kathryn holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s of public administration, with a concentration in social welfare policy, from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.