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    Katie Albright, JD

    Senior Advisor
    Safe & Sound
    SAN FRANCISCO, California

    Katie Albright, J.D., is an attorney and children’s advocate with more than thirty years of legal and non-profit executive experience. Albright currently serves as Principal to Albright Future, providing strategic and programmatic consulting services to state and county governments, institutions of higher education, foundations, and nonprofits to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families in health, safety, education, and well-being. For the previous sixteen years, she served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Safe & Sound, a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to improving the safety, health, and well-being of children and families through service, education, collaboration, and advocacy.

    California Governor Gavin Newsom recently appointed Albright to serve as Chair of the First 5 California Commission of Children and Families, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed appointed her to the San Francisco Homelessness Oversight Commission. Albright previously served as a San Francisco Deputy City Attorney, representing district public schools; the San Francisco Education Fund Policy Director, seeking to improve teacher quality and increase student retention; and Preschool California Co-Director of Policy and Outreach, advocating for statewide universal preschool. Albright was a litigator at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and a judicial clerk for the U.S. District Court in Maryland. Earlier in her career, Albright co-founded and taught in the Kayole-Gitau Nursery School and Community Center in Nairobi, Kenya.

    Albright serves on the boards of The Aspen Institute and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at Denver University. She is a policy advisor to the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley. She previously served as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Appeals and San Francisco Juvenile Probation Commission. She served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of San Francisco University High School, as well as a board member on NARAL Pro-Choice America, NARAL Pro-Choice California, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, and San Francisco Day School.

    Albright earned her B.A. in History graduating with honors from Williams College and J.D. as a Public Interest Law Scholar graduating cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She is an inaugural fellow with Ascend at The Aspen Institute and received a Social Entrepreneurship SEER Fellowship at Stanford University.

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