Katie Albright
Senior Advisor, Safe & Sound / Aspen Institute Trustee
Katie Albright is an attorney and children’s advocate with more than thirty years of legal and non-profit executive experience. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently appointed Albright to serve as Chair of the First 5 California Commission of Children and Families, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed appointed her to the San Francisco Homeless Oversight Commission.
For the past sixteen years, Albright 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, policy development, and advocacy. She currently serves as Senior Advisor/Consulting Partner with Safe & Sound and Just Advocates to focus on statewide policy reform to advance the well-being of children and families in California. Albright previously served as a San Francisco deputy city attorney, representing district public schools; the San Francisco Education Fund policy director, seeking to improve teacher quality and increase student retention; and the Preschool California co-director of policy and outreach, advocating for statewide universal preschool. Albright was a litigator at Latham and Watkins and clerked for the US District Court in Maryland. Earlier in her career, she co-founded and taught in the Kayole-Gitau Nursery School and Community Center in Nairobi, Kenya.
Albright earned her B.A. in History graduating with honors from Williams College and J.D. 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.