Kate Weber
Executive Director, USC Public Exchange
Kate Weber joined in 2018 as Executive Director to design and build Public Exchange alongside founder and former USC Dornsife Dean Amber Miller. Since then, Kate has grown Public Exchange into a 15-person team, forming more than 30 partnerships between 130 researchers and organizations including the UN Foundation, Yelp, the City of Los Angeles, and the State of California.
Before USC, Kate spent ten years as a foreign service officer at USAID, building environmental protection, health, civil society, and infrastructure development projects across five countries. In 2014, she helped create and launch the U.S. Global Development Lab—USAID’s first innovation lab. She also supported public-private partnerships between USAID and Unilever, Gap, IDEO, and more, tackling water and sanitation, infectious disease, and other global challenges. Kate is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Texas at Austin and held previous roles at PwC and Ketchum in management and communications consulting.
