Kate Hohorst

Kate was born in California but raised in Brazil, Mexico and Spain. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and embarked on an international banking career that spanned almost twenty years with Philadelphia National Bank, Merrill Lynch, First Chicago and NMB. Kate's passion is to find real solutions to combat poverty and to improve public school education for young people, particularly kids at risk. She is an experienced youth employment administrator and consultant with well over a decade of expertise in the field . She began working with Greenwich's Student Employment Service in 2003 and transformed and modernized the service when she became manager in 2006. Kate asked her husband Jim, a highly skilled software engineer, to help design and create a web-based service suitable for youth service organizations and high schools. The success of the software and employment program led to the creation of Student Employment Software in 2008 and shortly thereafter Kate entered the Master of Educational Technology program at the University of Maryland. In 2010 her company won the highly coveted US Department of Education Small Business Innovation and Research Award. Working in partnership with Fairfield University's Education Technology Professors and a team of Greenwich high school professionals, the first version of Student Employment Software's highly successful online internship program was created. In 2011 Student Employment Software was presented with Certificates of Recognition for outstanding services to the State and Nation by Governor Dan Malloy, Congressman Jim Himes and Senator Richard Blumenthal. Kate continues to work with schools, community organizations, and municipalities helping implement job, academic internship, and community service programs using Student Employment Software's proprietary technology.