Katya AndresenSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

She was also a speaker, author, and blogger, as well as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of the donation technology platform Network for Good. She is also an adjunct instructor of communication at American University's Key Executive Leadership Program and Vice-Chair of the Nonprofit Technology Network's board of directors (NTEN).

She has worked in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe for over 20 years. Katya has taught efficient marketing and online interaction to hundreds of organizations, and her marketing materials have received national and international honors.

She is the author of Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Good Causes, as well as People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities and Nonprofit Management 101. In 2007, she was selected Fundraising Professional of the Year by Fundraising Success Magazine.

She worked as the Senior Vice President of Sutton Group, a marketing and communications business, and with the Institute for Sustainable Communities in Ukraine before joining Network for Good. She also did volunteer work for CARE International.

Katya credits her own commitment to good causes to the massive socioeconomic need she observed as a journalist before working in the non-profit sector. In Asia, she worked for Reuters News and Television, while in Africa, she worked for the Associated Press and major US newspapers.