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Kathleen G. Noonan, JD
Associate Director

Contact: noonan@sp2.upenn.edu

Kathleen G. Noonan is a founding team member and Associate Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy. Before joining the Center, Kathleen spent six 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.