Kate Schweigart

As Senior Director of Innovative Finance within Rare’s coastal fisheries program, Fish Forever, Kate leads the Innovative Finance initiatives. In this role, Kate is developing pathways to finance community-led conservation at scale by blending philanthropy, public funding, bilateral/multilateral finance and private capital.  In conjunction with Rare’s country teams, Kate works to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal 14 investments, at the subnational level, to demonstrate that investments in small-scales fisheries will generate a positive return for coastal communities.