Katie Brisson is senior program officer for the New Economy Initiative where she is responsible for monitoring due diligence and evaluation processes and providing oversight of communications efforts.

Brisson joined the staff of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan as a program officer in June 1999 and was a consultant to the Foundation from 2005-09. She has managed a diverse portfolio of grants in the arts and culture, health, and youth sectors, and she continues oversight of The HOPE Fund, which makes grants to the local LGBT community.

Brisson served as a consultant to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Philanthropy and Volunteerism team, research assistant for The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, and as chief lobbyist for The Maryland Food Committee in Baltimore, where she worked on hunger and poverty issues. Brisson is a graduate of Leadership Detroit Class XXII and received a 2009 Spirit of Detroit Award and a Clifford Weems Award for Diversity in 2008.

Brisson holds a B.A. in sociology from Western Michigan University, an M.A. in legal and ethical studies from the University of Baltimore, and an M.A. from the Institute for Policy Studies at The Johns Hopkins University.