Katie Albright

Katie Albright is an attorney and children’s advocate with more than twenty-five years of legal and non-profit executive experience.

She served as the CEO and President of Safe & Sound for the past sixteen years, joining at the time it was called San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center. She now serves as Senior Advisor to focus on statewide policy to improve the well-being of children and families in California. Safe & Sound is a SF-based non-profit dedicated to improving the safety, health, and well-being of children and families through service, education, collaboration, and advocacy.

Katie’s prior experiences include SF Deputy City Attorney representing our public schools; SF Education Fund Policy Director leading a campaign to improve teacher quality and increase student retention; and, Preschool California Co-Director of Policy & Outreach campaigning statewide for universal preschool. Prior to serving as an associate at Latham & Watkins and clerking for the United States District Court in Maryland, she co-founded and taught in the Kayole-Gitau Nursery School & Community Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Katie earned her B.A. in History graduating with honors from Williams College and J.D. as a Public Interest Law Scholar graduating cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She is an inaugural Ascend Fellow with The Aspen Institute, received a Social Entrepreneurship SEER Fellowship at Stanford University, and served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of SF University High School. She was recently named as Commissioner to the SF Homeless Oversight Commission, and previously served on the boards of NARAL Pro-Choice America, NARAL Pro-Choice California, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, SF Board of Appeals, SF Juvenile Probation Commission, and SF Day School.