Kate has joined the Nature Trust team in 2025 to support the Conservation Department during the CEO's maternity leave. Kate has been working for the past five years with the Nashwaak Watershed Association, where she designed and led their Forest Stewardship Program. She loves working with landholders to help them achieve their goals while also helping their forests provide important ecosystem services. She also enjoys promoting partnerships between environmental organizations to achieve similar goals.

Kate has a Bachelor’s degree in biology and history of science from Dalhousie University and the University of King's College, where she studied native plant distributions in urban and natural environments around Halifax, N.S. She received a Master of Science at McGill University, where she researched a method for assessing the sustainability of wild plant harvesting in Central Mexico. She also participated in the Neotropical Environmental Option at McGill, taking several courses at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. After her degrees, Kate worked for seven years with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Source Protection Program as both a Liaison Officer and a Program Analyst. Since moving to New Brunswick, Kate has worked on numerous projects as a consultant and for environmental non-profits, primarily on topics relating to ecosystem restoration and forestry. 

Kate also leads a number of environmental initiatives in the town she now calls home - Hampton, New Brunswick. Here, she heads up monarch butterfly monitoring and gardening initiatives as well as nature exploration activities for children. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her four children and husband. 

Favourite Nature Preserve: Hampton Marsh Nature Preserve. Kate has enjoyed monitoring this preserve in her hometown for several years now, and loves the diversity of waterfowl that she sees during the Maritime marsh bird survey each year.