Kate Holmes is an Associate Director on the Health & Racial Equity team at HRiA. Prior to joining HRiA in 2021, Ms. Holmes worked as a Program Manager at the National Network of Public Health Institutes, mobilizing its national network of 40+ public health institutes to engage in school health initiatives, learning collaboratives, and convenings. Ms. Holmes earned her Master in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and her Bachelor of Science from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.