The Aspen Institute

Katie Albright, JD, is an attorney and children’s advocate with more than twenty-five years of legal and non-profit executive experience. She currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Safe & Sound, a children’s advocacy organization focused on strengthening families and ending child maltreatment. 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 the Preschool California co-director of policy and outreach, advocating for statewide universal preschool. Previously, Albright was a litigator at Latham and Watkins and clerked for the US District Court in Maryland. Earlier in her career, she co-founded and taught in the Kayole-Gitau Nursery School and Community Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Albright received an Ascend fellowship from the Aspen Institute and a social entrepreneurship fellowship from Stanford University.