Kathryn Hawkins
2024-2025 Obama Foundation USA Leader
Program Director, Outdoor Alliance
Truckee, California
Kathryn “Katie” Hawkins is the program director for Outdoor Alliance, an organization that mobilizes outdoor enthusiasts to protect public lands and waters. Katie works at the intersection of climate change, grassroots community building, and urban planning to ensure America’s public lands and waters are safe and accessible to all. Katie established the Recreate Responsibly California coalition that brought together the long-competing motorized and non-motorized communities with the outdoor industry to help pass The Great American Outdoors Act, historic bipartisan legislation to preserve and enhance the country’s public lands. Katie was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to his outdoor recreation commission and by Secretary Wade Crowfoot to coordinate for the California Natural Resources Agency.
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