Kate studied sociology and photojournalism at San Francisco State University; Spanish in Guatemala and Chile; and documentary photography at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She has exhibited her photographs in Santa Fe, North Carolina, Seattle and South Africa. Kate has engaged with independent artists and thinkers throughout her developing career.

"Whether I am photographing residents of an informal settlement in South Africa; the geometry of a short-order cook; or architecture that assumes monumentality amid the march of humanity, I often think about Henri Cartier Bresson's observation that the world is movement and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving."