Katherine Fulton

Change Agent, Christian, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Foodie, Gay, Journalist

Katherine Fulton has been a leading strategic advisor to foundations, high-net-worth donors, and major nonprofits for the past 25 years. She spent a decade building Monitor Institute into one of the nation’s leading social sector consulting firms, and has published and spoken widely on the future of philanthropy, impact investing and social change. Previously she was a journalist and entrepreneur, co-founding an award-winning, progressive newspaper in the American South. Her conviction in the early 1990s that the internet would transform journalism led her to California, where she worked with the world’s leading scenario planners as a senior leader at Global Business Network. Currently Katherine works primarily as a civic leader while continuing her philanthropy advisory practice. She co-chairs The Long Now Foundation and recently founded a local philanthropic fund to respond to the pandemic emergency.

The need for more hopeful narratives of our collective future that bring people together across many types of boundaries and barriers....which then requires....great skill in working co-creatively in community to create the shifts in behavior and assumptions the 21st century requires.

Gave a talk in Monterey in 2007, at the main TED. Participated in TED Women multiple times. Attended TED Summit 2016.

golf!