Kate Lee-McCarthy is the Director of Grants at the Online Learning Consortium and manages the OLC partnership with Every Learner Everywhere. Before joining OLC, she worked as the global sustainability manager for a large educational publishing company aligning the UN SDGs with the creation of a sustainability strategy. Through this work, she became interested in more directly impacting student learners and joined the Online Learning Consortium to shift her focus from applying corporate initiatives from afar to working more closely with institutions, their leaders, and organizations with a focus on improving student outcomes. Kate holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from Boston University and a Master of Liberal Arts in Sustainability from Harvard University.