Kate Greswold has a twenty year background working in the non-profit sector. She is a social entrepreneur, having started, led, advised and served on boards of many non-profit organizations. Her work has ranged from humanitarian efforts in Africa, to international population issues, economics, water in the US and California, safe energy, solar in the US, China, and Germany, renewables and energy, communications, among other topics.
Ms. Greswold holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania with a minor in international business. She has participated in three Climbs for CARE, to benefit the international humanitarian organization, CARE. She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in 1998. She summitted Tarija and Huayna Potosi in the Cordillera Real in Bolivia in 2000, reaching a height of 19,974 ft. In 2004 she and her eleven year old daughter climbed to 17,000 feet on Cotopaxi glacier in Ecuador. In 2006 the Greswold family summited five volcanic peaks while living in Chile. In July 2010, Ms. Greswold completed her first marathon, the San Francisco marathon. She summited Cathdral Peak in 2014. Her interests are environmental work, outdoor sports, canyoneering, kitesurfing, reading, and travel.