Kate Shoemaker
Kate Shoemaker, Director of Policy & Special Projects for the President, joined the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) in 1999. In her current capacity, she leads HCZ’s policy work at the city, state and federal level. Over the past decade at HCZ, she has also helped to start-up and manage a wide variety of projects and partnerships for HCZ including the development of HCZ’s 92,000 square foot headquarters and charter school building on 125th street. Previously, Shoemaker worked for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services.
Shoemaker earned a Master’s in Public Policy at Georgetown Public Policy Institute. During graduate school, she was a Senior Fellow for the DC Family Impact Seminar at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health. She graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Government and Economics from Bowdoin College. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.