Katherine Lander

Manager, Strategic Planning and Development

Katherine Lander has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit arts & culture administration and fundraising. Prior to joining 4A, she held fundraising leadership roles with KET (Kentucky Educational Television), and Actors Theatre of Louisville, and was an Individual Philanthropy Advisor at Centre College. Katherine spent several years working in arts & culture in New York City, having done her graduate internship with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and served on the Development teams at Jazz at Lincoln Center and WNET-New York Public Media.

Prior to her time in NYC, Katherine worked in theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area at  California Theatre Center and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Her arts administration career began at Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) in Greensboro, NC.

Katherine has also served as adjunct faculty with the University of Kentucky’s Arts Administration Program since summer 2020, and previously taught Fund Development for the Arts with the MA in Arts Entrepreneurship program at Purchase College (Purchase, NY). 

Katherine holds a BA in English from Centre College and an MA in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.