Katherine Loflin, M.S.W., Ph.D. (email)

    Dr. Loflin received her Masters in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with specializations in Families and Children and Community Practice.  She received her Ph.D. in Social Work also from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her dissertation was entitled “Bonding and Bridging Social Capital and Their Relationship to Community and Political Civic Engagement."

    Most recently, she served as a program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in overseeing the foundation’s grant making initiatives in Bradenton and Palm Beach County, Florida.  She also developed and managed Knight’s Technical Assistance Program, which provides organizational capacity assistance to Knight’s grantees, and managed Knight’s $50 million Community Foundation Initiative. Previously at the Foundation she served as Knight’s expert on civic engagement best practices and program evaluation. 

    Before joining the foundation in 2002, Dr. Loflin was a social issues consultant for a news affiliate in North Carolina where she designed and executed the first social worker placement in a television newsroom to help inform the news production process. She also designed and taught media training seminars for nonprofit professionals at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   Her clients also included Knight Foundation where she advised on civic engagement best practices, which eventually became a permanent position with the foundation in 2002.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Loflin served as executive director for two nonprofit organizations in North Carolina. 

Currently through Loflin Consulting Solutions, Dr. Loflin is working with a variety of partners in the philanthropic, nonprofit and for profit worlds, including Knight Foundation and the Gallup Organization.