Kate Yoo McCrery

Kate Yoo McCrery partners with nonprofit newsroom leaders across the country to grow sustainable operations, deepen local impact, and help ensure the long-term success of the American Journalism Project’s investments. She also helps scout and evaluate new growth opportunities for the organization.

Kate brings over a decade of experience at the intersection of entrepreneurship, accelerators and impact capital. She was the founding global communications director at Village Capital, an impact investing pioneer and one of the world’s most active early-stage venture firms. Before joining AJP, she served as director of marketing at Right to Start, a national nonprofit advancing entrepreneurial opportunity. She has also led accelerator programs for Black and Latina women founders as director of programs at digitalundivided, and built a nationally ranked university entrepreneurship program as director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola University New Orleans.

As founder of Rhinebeck Ventures, Kate has advised nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on strategy, programs, operations, marketing and impact. She is also the co-founder of Aspire Now, a health and wellness startup for older adults. Her global work includes consulting and research for Echoing Green, USAID, and UNICEF across South Korea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Pakistan, and Germany.

A Fulbright Scholar and former TEDx director, Kate holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. from Columbia University. She lives in New York City.