Katie Sullivan is the Partnerships Program Manager at the Hertz Foundation.
Katie is responsible for managing programs that support the Hertz Foundation’s current and future strategic partnerships. By developing frameworks, tools, and systems, she helps to amplify the Foundation’s capacity for collaboration, creating new opportunities and programmatic offerings for its community of over 1,200 Hertz Fellows.
Katie brings over a decade of experience in program management, partnership development, and operations management within the nonprofit and government sectors. She comes to the Hertz Foundation from a career in international development where she coordinated innovation partnerships, developed programming for international conferences, and designed prize competitions and challenge funds to invite new solutions from researchers, scientists, and innovators worldwide. This experience fueled her passion for applying complementary skills and resources to achieve a shared mission. Previously, Katie also worked as a technology consultant, where she built streamlined data systems for social sector clients to strengthen decision-making. She is eager to apply her user experience lens to enhance the partnership experience for the Hertz Foundation, partners, and Fellows alike.
Katie holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master’s in Global Human Development from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC, where she enjoys pickleball, strategy board games, trying new recipes, and hiking trips to the mountains in her free time.
