Kate oversees research for federal organizations and agencies like the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and academic partners. She has seventeen years of experience managing questionnaire design, cognitive testing, interviewer training, participant recruitment, in-depth interviewing, data review, and data harmonization activities. Her recent methodological research focuses on monetary incentives and adaptive survey design. Kate also has sixteen years of experience conducting community-based, longitudinal research focused on child and family well-being. 

Kate is currently Project Director of the 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. For this study NORC expects to conduct more than 200,000 interviews across four waves for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and sixteen state wildlife agencies. She is also Assistant Project Director for the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), sponsored by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The SCF data inform a wide variety of economic policy decisions across the government and research on the economic state of the American family.

Kate formerly served as Associate Project Director for the Making Connections Survey, a ten-year study of low-income communities funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Following survey data collection, Kate provided technical assistance and mentoring to external users of longitudinal datasets and coordinated research awards with three cohorts of longitudinal data users.