Katie Albright, JD, is an attorney and children’s advocate with more than thirty years of legal and non-profit executive experience. She currently serves as the founding Executive Director of Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood at the University of California-Berkeley, an interdisciplinary public impact alliance dedicated to advance early childhood learning and wellbeing through research, policy, and practice. She also serves as a Senior Advisor with Alliance for Community Advocacy providing strategic and programmatic consulting services to state and county governments, institutions of higher education, foundations, and nonprofits to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families in health, safety, education, and well-being.
Katie previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Safe & Sound, a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to improving the safety, health, and well-being of children and families through service, education, collaboration, and advocacy. Prior experiences include San Francisco Deputy City Attorney; San Francisco Education Fund Policy Director; and, Preschool California Co-Director of Policy & Outreach. She also served as an associate at Latham & Watkins and clerked for the United States District Court in Maryland.
Governor Gavin Newsom recently appointed Katie to serve as Chair of the First 5 California Commission of Children and Families, and Mayor London Breed appointed her to the San Francisco Homelessness Oversight Commission. She serves as a member on the boards of The Aspen Institute and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
Katie earned her BA in History graduating with honors from Williams College and JD as a Public Interest Law Scholar graduating cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She is an inaugural Ascend Fellow with The Aspen Institute and received a Social Entrepreneurship SEER Fellowship at Stanford University.