Cohort 10
Kate Thompson
EDUCATION • Master of Social Work UW-Green Bay • Bachelor of Social Work UW-Green Bay
ENROLLED • Cohort 10
LOCATION • Oshkosh, Wis.
Kate Thompson holds a BSW and MSW in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, with an emphasis in Child Welfare. She brings extensive experience in sexual violence advocacy, mental health, and child welfare across the United Kingdom and the United States. After immigrating from the UK in 2013 and living for a time as an undocumented resident in Chicago, Kate developed deep, lived insight into poverty, immigration, basic survival, and social isolation. That experience shaped her commitment to rural mental health work in Wisconsin and ultimately drew her back to child welfare, where she advocates fiercely for clients who face systemic barriers. In child welfare Kate discovered her voice as a change agent, often challenging the very systems she works within to secure better outcomes for families. Her advocacy has been bold and uncompromising, including direct actions that reflect her fearless approach, including being banned from a jail for her client advocacy. Working in rural counties exposed her to patterns of systemic racism and inequity, which convinced her that individual casework must be paired with education and cultural humility to create sustainable, equitable change. This led her to the Educational Sustainability program, where Kate now channels her experience and tenacity to advance educational sustainability and transform policies and practices that perpetuate disproportionality and inequality in child welfare and other systems.
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Ed.D. in Educational Sustainability
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