Katie Grace

Program Manager, Initiative for Responsible Investing

Website: http://hausercenter.org/iri/
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Katie Grace is Program Manager at the Initiative for Responsible Investment, where she oversees office management and conducts research on public policy and impact investment, sustainable cities investment, and place-based frameworks for community development.  She has authored or co-authored a number of works at the IRI, including the recent “Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit.”  Prior to coming to the IRI at the Hauser Center, she worked as a research analyst at the Tellus Institute on projects including the identification of key sustainability performance indicators for a major oil and gas company, market definition for a nonprofit launching a single global sustainable standard for products and services, and case study analysis of the effects of university endowments on employment and the community. Katie graduated with honors from Williams College with a BA, cum laude, in Political Science and a Concentration in Leadership Studies, and is currently pursuing an ALM in Government from the Harvard Extension School.