Kate is the managing editor of Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Before coming to Cultural Anthropology, Kate led a feasibility study to assess the interest in a cooperative model among experimental, scholar-led open access publications in the social sciences as part of Libraria’s Cooperate for Open project. 

She received her MSLS from UNC – Chapel Hill in 2020 following several years in and around academic publishing, including managing a small open access anthropology press, working in the Duke University Press acquisitions department, and assisting in the UNC scholarly communications office.