Katherine Donald

Katherine Donald has served as the Executive Director for the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas for more than twenty (20) years. She has been instrumental in assisting in the passage of several statewide and local tobacco control laws, and numerous voluntary policies that help to protect the public from exposure to secondhand smoke in places where they live, work, learn, worship, and play.

For the past thirty plus years, Katherine has worked professionally for both the private and public sector, in fields affecting adolescent development, family enrichment, public health, and community development. She is a certified trainer and consultant for a national organization that focuses on family enrichment and parental empowerment issues. Katherine has conducted trainings and supervised iterant programs from California to Massachusetts, and much of the Mid-west. Additionally, she has managed and administered a multiplicity of programs at the local level.

Katherine received her first degree from Philander Smith College, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and continued her education through graduate studies in Rehabilitation Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.