About me
For over three decades, Katya Smyth has challenged assumptions and structures underlying American systems, including that scale and perpetuity are inherently valuable, and led organizations and alliances that offer a new way forward in fields including community development, human services, planning, justice, and climate. In 1995, she founded On The Rise, a community of women pushed to the margins. In 2009, she founded the Full Frame Initiative , a national social change organization partnering with communities and government to advance wellbeing equity through power- and resource-shifting. She is a Visiting Fellow at Indiana University's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.