Kate Kreamer serves as the Executive Director of Advance CTE, the longest-standing national non-profit that represents state leaders responsible for secondary, postsecondary and adult Career Technical Education (CTE) across the country. Kate first joined Advance CTE in 2013 as the Associate Executive Director and was named Deputy Executive Director in 2015 and appointed by the Board of Directors to serve as the Executive Director in 2023. From 2006-2013, Kate worked at Achieve, where she led a range of policy, research and communications projects to support states’ college- and career-ready agendas as an associate director. Previously, Kate was a policy advisor at Third Way and a research assistant at the Progressive Policy Institute. Kate received her B.S. from Cornell University, and her master's of public policy from Georgetown University. Kate lives in D.C. with her family.