Kate Gallagher is Senior Manager of Place-Based Investing at the Healthcare Anchor Network, where she partners with a national network of nonprofit hospitals and health systems to advance place-based impact investing strategies. Her work focuses on aligning health system assets with community needs to address social drivers of health and foster healthier, more resilient communities.

Kate brings more than a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, partnering with philanthropic, academic, and private sector organizations at both the local and national level to advance equitable economic development. Her work spans a range of inclusive economic growth strategies, including workforce development, local business resiliency, community investment, cross-sector collaboration, and community wealth building. She previously served as an economic development practitioner at the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation and as a research assistant for Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a research and learning collaborative based at Tulane University.

Kate holds a Master of Public Health Policy from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.