Trustee: Katherine Lorenz

Katherine Lorenz was appointed to be the president of Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation starting 1st May 2011.  Previous to her role at the Foundation she acted as the Deputy Director of IFP US. Prior to her work with the Institute, Ms. Lorenz lived and worked in Oaxaca, Mexico for nearly six years where she co-founded Puente a la Salud Comunitaria (www.puentemexico.org), a non-profit organisation working to eradicate malnutrition and advance food sovereignty in rural Oaxaca through the integration of amaranth into the local diet.

Before founding Puente, she spent two summers living and working in rural, poor communities in Latin America with the volunteer program Amigos de las Américas and now serves on their Program Committee and is a trustee of the Amigos de las Americas Foundation.

Additionally, she serves on the Boards of Directors of the Endowment for Regional Sustainability Science, Resource Generation, and the Amaranth Institute. Along with her family, Ms. Lorenz is a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle (through the Synergos Institute) and is an active participant in the GPC Next Generation subgroup. She is also an alumna of The Philanthropy Workshop Cohort 12.  Ms. Lorenz holds a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Davidson College.