FORGED Alumni Speaker Series - Kate Yeater '17

Host: Hailey Edmondson '17 Q&A Moderator: Mark Aronson '17 Guest: Kate Yeater '17 Kate Yeater is the Director of Communications and Outreach at Salmon Valley Stewardship, a community-based conservation nonprofit in rural central Idaho, where she works at the intersection of place-based education, community engagement, and nonprofit administration. Prior to this role she worked as a park ranger, farm school educator, and served with Peace Corps Malawi and Montana State Parks AmeriCorps. Kate graduated from Purdue’s Honors College and College of Liberal Arts in 2017 with a degree in Anthropology where she specialized in political ecology, and participated in a wide variety of campus activities including undergraduate research, Boiler Gold Rush, CLA Ambassadors, and Mortar Board.