Kathryn Hickok

Kathryn Hickok joined Cascade Policy Institute in June 2005. She is Director of the Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland, Publications Director, and Development Coordinator. Kathryn is coauthor of Cascade board member Larry Dennis’s book 15 Leadership Principles and Ronald Reagan: Use Them to Change Your World, and formerly managed a Portland accounting firm. Kathryn graduated with honors from the University of Portland with a degree in English and a minor in French. She edited the University’s student literary journal, UP Writers, and served as a foreign language textbook editor for a member of the faculty. A winner of several writing competitions, she was the only high school student to win Cascade’s Independence Essay Competition twice. Kathryn has been a college-level French tutor, volunteer teacher, and choreographer for ballet students. She held several positions of leadership in a local service organization for young women.