Katie Everett is the Executive Director of The Lynch Foundation. Since joining in 1997 as its first staff member, she has overseen the foundation’s growth from $40 million to $160 million and has led the investment of $250 million in over 400 social change organizations, including early funding for City Year, Partners in Health, and The Phoenix.

A leader in philanthropy, Katie has guided the Foundation through several nationally recognized initiatives, including The Lynch Leadership Academy, which develops world-class urban school leaders, and The Lynch Early Education Initiative, supporting over 140 early childhood classrooms in Boston’s Catholic schools. She also played a key role in the Boston Schoolyards Initiative, one of the city’s most successful public-private partnerships that restored 80 school playgrounds

Katie served as a Founding Board Member of the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and The Boston Schools Fund and is currently a Board Member of the Day of Ai, The Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Education (ILEE), and The Mass Taxpayers Foundation. Katie served on the Board of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund and was the Board Chair of the Eliot Innovation School. She is also an active member of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Catholic Council; Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston's Community Advisory Council; Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance’s Advisory Board; and Providence College’s School of Education and Social Work Advisory Council.

Katie is a graduate of Boston College and has completed Executive Programs at Stanford and Harvard. She lives in the South End of Boston with her two children and husband.