Kathleen Warner serves as a Senior Advisor to America Achieves, providing strategic guidance and support to regional coalitions across the country focused on inclusive, transformative economic growth.

An entrepreneurial leader, non-linear thinker, and inclusive ecosystem builder in both rural and urban communities, Kathleen has vast cross-sectorial experience, including in finance, healthcare, and tech and across startups, mature companies, not-for-profits, and government. Prior to her work with America Achieves, Kathleen held senior leadership roles at a number of organizations, including the American Heart Association, where she focused on equitably accelerating health impact at the intersection of business, science, and technology, and at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, catalyzing an ambitious and innovative set of high impact initiatives and investments to both equitably create good jobs and advance the industries and technologies underlying NYC's sustainable economy, including, most notably, an unprecedented now billion dollar investment to grow NYC’s life sciences sector. An Entrepreneur-in-Residence to a variety of entities, including GE and Techstars, Kathleen was also COO and founding team member of the Startup America Partnership, a private sector initiative of the Case and Kauffman Foundations created in response to President Barack Obama’s cross-agency effort to support entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups across the country.

A graduate of Duke University and Brooklyn Law School, Kathleen began her career as an attorney, has advised a number of political campaigns, and was senior staff to a US Congressman in her home state of Connecticut. Kathleen currently resides in Montana, where she can be found skiing, hiking, paddling, and occasionally watching bears in her backyard.