Summary
Kate Flaherty is a community planner and dual master's candidate in City & Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture at Cornell, bringing 15 years of professional experience bridging nonprofit, clean-tech, and public-sector practice. She currently serves as a Community Planner at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center, where she translates interdisciplinary design thinking into transportation and community-focused projects informed by human-centered design. Her background includes project management for Cornell Design Connect, teaching and research support in architecture and planning, and communications and marketing roles that sharpen stakeholder engagement and advocacy. Based in Berkeley, Kate combines international-relations perspective from her BA with practical experience in accessibility and inclusive design, and maintains a public portfolio showcasing her built-environment work.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Candidate, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Master's Candidate, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at Cornell University
B.A., International Relations, B.A., International Relations at Wheaton College Massachusetts
English, Spanish