Katherine McKee received her PhD in Agricultural & Extension Education from Virginia Tech in 2011 where her studies focused on identity development, access to discourses, and pedagogy. Dr. McKee works in leadership education examining how we can develop leadership capacities for transformative change. Prior to coming to NC State as faculty, Dr. McKee served as a 4-H Youth Development Agent and as a High School Agriculture Teacher.<\/p>\n
She is the co-director of The Oaks Leadership Scholars and co-editor and co-author of Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy, & Activism both of which focus on developing identities aligned with transformative leadership in order to address justice and equity goals.<\/p>\n
She developed and facilitates Agents for Change, a two-year program for early career Extension professionals to develop leadership capacities to address big, messy challenges in their communities and create more just and equitable outcomes.<\/p>\n
Dr. McKee is the co-PI on New Beginnings for Colleges of Agriculture, a NIFA-funded program to develop cultural competency among CALS faculty in order to support youth from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian in their success at NC State and to develop curriculum for faculty at other institutions to build competence for similar work with Indigenous populations. Further, she is a collaborator on the #PassTheMicYouth Curriculum to develop advocacy among youth.<\/p>\n