Katie Weitz

After graduating from Carleton College with a BA in Political Science, Katie moved to Chicago and became a middle school teacher earning a M.Ed. from DePaul University. She soon learned that the issues inside education were much broader than what happened in the classroom and returned to academia achieving a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy. Katie moved home to Omaha for a dream job at The Sherwood Foundation and spent six years there growing as a professional and as a person. Taking what she learned there, she has now turned her focus to her own family’s foundation and is currently the executive director.