Kat Kavanagh
Founder And Executive Director at Capra
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKat Kavanagh is a designer-turned-environmental entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building user-centered digital products and community-led stewardship programs. As founder and Executive Director of Water Rangers, she leads a design-led nonprofit that lowers barriers to community water monitoring across Canada and the UK, scaling from an AquaHacking win in 2015 to national projects like Watershed Reports and CaSTCo. Her background blends award-winning UX and game design with a McGill Master’s in Integrated Water Resource Management, enabling her to translate scientific data into engaging citizen-facing tools. She also runs Capra, a decade-old studio focused on wellness and environmental products, and brings a knack for using game mechanics and real-time analysis to deepen public connection to waterways. Recognized as an Ashoka Fellow in 2023, Kat is notable for marrying creative storytelling with rigorous data-driven stewardship to create lasting civic impact.
14 years of coding experience
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary SchoolMaster's of Science degree, Integrated Water Resource Management, Bioresource Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Master's of Science degree, Integrated Water Resource Management, Bioresource Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at McGill University
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Github Skills (5)
python3
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zip1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thisiscapra/thisiscapra.com
Dec 2011 - Feb 2021
thisiscapra.com website
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
Luminus/thisiscapra.com
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:18 commits in 26 days
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