“For too long, philanthropic discussions have focused on making donors feel good. The Center is about something radically different: focus on impact. It’s about being an honest broker of the information required to link financing to impact.”

Katherina Rosqueta
Executive Director

STAFF

fellows

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Kathleen G. Noonan, JD
senior fellow

Contact: noonank@email.chop.edu

Kathleen Noonan is a senior fellow and former founding Associate Director at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy. She is currently co-leading the effort to establish an interdisciplinary research and policy center at CHOP. Kathleen is also an adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an adjunct faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Before joining the Center, Kathleen spent seven years as a Senior Associate and Engagement Manager with Casey Strategic Consulting, the consulting arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. As the consulting group’s first member, Kathleen was instrumental in bringing Casey’s expertise in state and local human service systems together with the best methods of private sector strategy consulting. While at Casey, Kathleen led engagements around the country aimed to produce significant, measurable, and lasting public system reforms for the benefit of vulnerable children, families, and communities.

Prior to joining Casey, Kathleen was a practicing attorney at the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow where she focused on real estate, specifically involving the use of Low- Income Housing Tax Credits. She served as a law clerk to United States District Judge Morris E. Lasker and has worked in public policy positions in New York City with the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc., and Bank Street College of Education’s Division of Social Policy.

Kathleen received her B. A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a J.D. at Northeastern University School of Law.