Kathy Kemper

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT KATHY KEMPER

Known as “Coach” to many, she is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Education, a nonprofit foundation that encourages collaboration, harnessing the power of data, innovation, and soft diplomacy in the world community. Todd Park has dubbed Coach the \'Mayor of tech-in-gov.\' In partnership with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, IFE founded CS@SC, creating free coding camps for underrepresented kids in Los Angeles, California, and around the world. USC Viterbi Innovation Partner. In 2019, Kemper was recognized, alongside Jeff Bezos, as one of Washington Life Magazine’s “Tech 25”, a prestigious honor reserved for top technology innovators and disruptors. Extolled as “D.C.’s Networker-in-Chief” by U.S. News and World Report, Kemper regularly convenes timely salons, forums, intimate discussions and invitation-only gatherings that draw senior White House and Congressional leaders, distinguished ambassadors and diplomats, business founders, journalists and technology innovators for debate and discussion. Past speakers have included Supreme Court Justices, a Vice President, Senators, Ambassadors, Nobel laureates, Cabinet secretaries, US Chief Technology Officers, CEOs, and more. A former professional tennis player, Coach Kemper served as head Women’s Tennis Coach at Georgetown University from 1978 to 1990, and coached Georgetown’s No. 1 player to the NCAA National Women’s Division II title in 1983. Coach has spent more than 40 years coaching tennis for Washington’s power brokers — hitting the courts with Supreme Court Justices, kings, queens, and US Secretaries of State through seven administrations at the White House court, Senate court, and Embassy courts. Kemper has received awards and recognition from the Swedish, Chinese, and Japanese governments for her commitment to cross-cultural dialogue. In 2017, three U.S. CTOs awarded the Challenge Coin to Coach Kemper for her bipartisan leadership in technology. Kemper is the first of 2 women members of the \'Friends of the Gridiron; on the board and CHAMPION of Journey to Lead; founding member of WP Instlligence Global Security Council; an AlGrrls AI Ambassador; Trustee Emeritus Learn Serve International. A frequent op-ed writer and columnist, her work has been featured in The Hill, Roll Call, Fortune, The Globalist, Huffington Post and USA Today. Follow her on Twitter @Coach_Kemper.