Katherine Peck, senior vice president of programs, is responsible for overseeing the foundation’s national programs and legal compliance.
Katherine started at the Gill Foundation in April of 2005 as national director of the movement building center (now the National Center). The National Center makes grants to national nonprofits in 49 states (excluding Colorado) that serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In addition, the National Center makes grants to non-gay allied organizations whose work encompasses LGBT equality, or progressive issues related to full equality for all people.
Katherine came to the Gill Foundation from the Denver-based Rose Community Foundation, where she was vice president for programs. She had oversight responsibility for the foundation’s grantmaking, which in 2004 totaled more than $8 million in the foundation’s five program areas: aging, child and family development, education, health, and Jewish life.
Katherine’s extensive community involvement includes the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, where she served as board president; the Denver Foundation’s civic and education advisory committee; and the boards of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation, the Colorado Women’s Forum, and the Legal Aid Foundation. She is currently on the boards of the Colorado Nonprofit Association and the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center.
Prior to joining the Rose Community Foundation, Katherine was a partner at Holme Roberts & Owen LLP where she practiced law from 1984 to 2001. She served in various leadership positions within the firm including the executive committee and was an openly gay partner in one of Denver’s most prestigious law firms. She has also provided pro bono legal counsel to gay and lesbian people seeking to adopt children and has worked with grassroots activists working to defeat Amendment 2.
Katherine earned her law degree from the University of Denver, attending school in the evenings while working as a financial analyst for the United Bank of Denver National Association. Katherine has been recognized as a Woman Leader of Excellence by the Colorado Women’s Leadership Coalition, and is a member of the prestigious Women’s Leadership Circle of the Girl Scouts – Mile Hi Council.
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