Kate Roberts

Roberts is the Co-Founder of Maverick Collective and Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy at PSI. The Maverick Collective is a ground-breaking philanthropic and advocacy initiative developed in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at catalyzing the next wave of social investors. As Co-Founder, Roberts heads projects and partnerships around the world to improve the health and rights of girls and women. Roberts also founded YouthAIDS and Five & Alive to increase public awareness around HIV and reduce its prevalence among youth. Before PSI, Roberts co-founded and served as managing director of the a promotion agency in Eastern Europe. She has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a CNN Hero, and was one of Vogue’s 100 women in 2009. She also has received the Jack Valenti AIDS outstanding achievement award. Roberts is an adjunct professor on social entrepreneurship at The George Washington University.