Katie Burdick, CABY Executive Director

Katie Burdick joined CABY in 2007. Katie has over 30 years experience in the design and implementation of public outreach and involvement programs, federal, state, and local agency interagency coordination, conflict resolution, mediation, consensus building, and meeting facilitation. 

She has worked for over twenty-five years with nongovernmental organizations around the country providing both consulting and training on such topics as long-range strategic planning, program planning, foundation and agency grant-writing, board roles and responsibilities, conflict management, and program implementation. 

During this timeframe, she has also managed large-scale NEPA and CEQA document preparation, the development of habitat management plans, preparation of General and Specific Plans, and the preparation of site constraints analyses.  She has developed classes and seminars on a wide variety of topics for agencies, organizations and businesses throughout the United States. 

Ms. Burdick has also consulted in Ecuador/Galapagos Islands (Galapagos Conservancy), Indonesia (Ocean Education Institute) and New Zealand (North Coast Water) for NGO groups with an environmental focus.  During this work she also conducted training for local citizens on leadership and business management.