Kathy Nothstine
Director of Cities and Societies
Pronouns: She/Her
At Challenge Works, Kathy is Director of Cities and Societies, and focuses on place-based innovation and empowering cities to shape their destiny. Current and recent projects she has led include the Sustainable Cities Challenge, a $9 million global challenge to advance sustainable mobility in cities; the Mayor’s Resilience Fund, the Mayor of London’s £1 million challenge fund to incentivise innovators solve 10 different challenges across the city; the Climate Smart Cities Challenge, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gases in cities; the Rapid Recovery Challenge, aimed at improving access to jobs and money for people hardest hit by the economic shock resulting from Covid-19; and Flying High, a multi-sector collaboration to engage cities, industry, service users, residents and other stakeholders to shape the future of urban drone services.
Kathy is passionate about cities and communities, and has over 15 years experience in urban planning and working with local governments. She has designed and delivered capacity-building and technical assistance programmes to identify and scale up transformative new approaches to creating stronger communities and economies based on local assets and place-based strategies. She has worked on rural and urban development and regeneration schemes, planning proposals and transport plans in the public and private sector.
Kathy holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and is an AICP-certified city planner.
In her spare time Kathy enjoys running, yoga and country walks.
Blogs by Kathy
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What we learned in designing the Detroit ‘Transforming Freight’ Challenge
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Announcing the Host Cities of the Sustainable Cities Challenge
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Solving problems in cities with people at the center
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Getting started with open innovation challenges in cities
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Sustainable Cities Challenge launches $9 million global challenge to cities
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Call to accelerate innovation in rapidly growing cities
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Empowering people to shape city futures with a challenge-led approach
Thought Leadership
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Designing challenge funds
Thought Leadership
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Challenge funds – what, who, and why?
Thought Leadership
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City and region challenge funds
Thought Leadership
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How can we accelerate innovation to respond to the climate crisis?
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Five things we’ve learned about running city-based open innovation challenges
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Announcing the Climate Smart Cities Challenge finalists
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Finalists win £10K each to improve London’s future
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Four cities selected for the Climate Smart Cities Challenge
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Open call to help solve some of London’s most pressing challenges
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Mayor’s Resilience Fund: Call for challenge partners
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Designing the cities of the future
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