Kate Garand Holmes is an Associate Director on the Health & Racial Equity team at HRiA.
In this role, she provides technical assistance and capacity building to clients, partners, and collaborators on transforming public health systems with a health and racial equity lens. Kate also brings over a decade of designing, planning, and facilitating in-person and virtual learning experiences, including webinars, asynchronous training series, train the trainer programs, conferences, and summits. Prior to joining HRiA in 2021, Kate worked at the National Network of Public Health Institutes, mobilizing its network, national partners, state departments of education, and health and physical educators across the country to engage in school health initiatives, learning collaboratives, and convenings. She holds an MPH from the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and her Bachelor of Science from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.