Kathryn Compton
Chief Development Officer, Strong Women Strong World

Kathryn Compton has been with World Vision US for over 25 years, and currently serves as Chief Development Officer. A dynamic and innovative leader in her work at World Vision, Kathryn developed and leads Strong Women Strong World — a global Women’s Empowerment initiative focused on bringing together influential and affluent partners who are dedicated to empowering women and girls through gender reconciliation in developing countries. The Strong Women Strong World initiative uniquely positions World Vision’s work in the global context of empowering girls, women, boys, and men to being equally valued, receiving equal access to services, programs and responses, and experiencing equal rights and freedoms. Through Kathryn’s leadership, she has created a community of partners from differing disciplines, denominations, traditions and political persuasions and an opportunity to work together on a common cause: gender justice. Kathryn brings energy, compassion, and innovation as both a fundraiser and an advocate for women and the disenfranchised. She is uniquely gifted at identifying and empowering community leaders here in the United States as well as in some of the most underdeveloped and impoverished places in the world.

Past accomplishments include the highly successful development and implementation of World Vision’s national advocacy and awareness campaign to respond to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Hope Initiative. Kathryn led the Hope Tours, visiting over 18 cities in the US with the goal of mobilizing, educating, and informing, individuals, corporations, foundations, community leaders, and the media around the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the developing world and the US. Her deep commitment and love to the poor and marginalized people of the world is evident in everything she does and touches everyone she meets in a profound way.

Areas of expertise
  • Developed and leads Strong Women Strong World — a global Women’s Empowerment initiative focused on bringing together influential and affluent partners who are dedicated to empowering women and girls through gender reconciliation in developing countries.
  • Innovative as both a fundraiser and advocate for women and is uniquely gifted at identifying and empowering community leaders here in the United States as well as in some of the most underdeveloped and impoverished places in the world.
Personal life

Kathryn currently resides in Tacoma, WA and is the proud mother to three sons.

Education

University of Arizona

 

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