Originally from Royal Oak, Michigan, Kate moved to Chicago to attend DePaul University and has spent the last 20+ years living and working all over the city. She’s worked for a record label, a mid-century modern furniture dealer, the Renegade Craft Fair, a software startup, and a Fortune 50 technology company. She’s also called a pretty wide variety of spaces home, from vintage greystones and high-rise apartments to an industrial loft, a storefront with no kitchen, and a mid-century ranch she renovated with her husband.

All of those experiences inform her approach to real estate. She’s particularly drawn to working with artists, musicians, creative professionals, and entrepreneurs whose lives, livelihoods, and housing needs don't always fit neatly into conventional boxes. She also has a particular interest in creative approaches to homeownership, including multi-household co-buying and cooperative living. Whether it's finding an unconventional space, navigating financing, planning a renovation, or buying a first home, she brings a combination of creativity, technical know-how, and practical problem-solving to the process.

Above all, Kate believes good real estate advising is about helping people make informed, confident decisions that serve their own goals—not someone else's idea of what homeownership should look like.