Katherine Leary Alsdorf

Biography

Katherine founded Redeemer’s Center for Faith & Work, serving as Executive Director from 2002 – 2012. Some of her innovative programs included the Gotham Fellowship, the Entrepreneurship Initiative to start new gospel-centered ventures, Arts Ministries, and vocation groups. The Center’s mission is to mobilize the church to apply the gospel to work and become agents of renewal within our institutions. Currently, she is helping other churches establish contextualized faith and work ministries. She and her husband launched New City Fellows in Raleigh, NC in September 2016.

From 1976-2002, Katherine served in leadership roles in the high tech industry in California, Luxembourg and New York. She was CEO of an online management education company, a hardware/software products company, and a satellite services company. She earned her MBA at The Darden School at the University of Virginia. She took seminary classes at Regent College from 2001-2005. She has served on the boards of Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, International Arts Movement and the Theology of Work project. In 2012 Christianity Today named Katherine one of their “50 Women You Should Know.” Also in 2012, Katherine assisted Tim Keller in the writing of Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work.