Miss Porter’s School

Katherine G. Windsor is the 12th Head of Miss Porter’s School. Prior to her tenure at Miss Porter's School, she served as the head of The Sage School in Foxboro, Mass. Dr. Windsor earned her Doctor of Education degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Klingenstein Visiting Fellow at Columbia University. Her undergraduate and graduate studies were completed at the University of Rochester and the College of Notre Dame. 

She serves as the board chair of The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, and on the boards of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges: Commission on Independent Schools and the Student Participatory Action Research Collaborative. She also serves on the University of Pennsylvania Executive Committee for the Independent School Residency Program and is an instructor of master’s and doctoral students with a focus on the intersection of identity theory and organizational behavior also at UPenn. 

Dr. Windsor is a frequent lecturer on leadership and girls’ education. Her body of work includes presenting at NYU’s conference, Educating the 21st Century Child and at the 32nd Annual Ethnographic in Education Research Forum on the topic of Practitioner Research: Leadership and the Practice(s) of Inquiry, and extensive research on how adolescent girls define success.  Most recently she has presented at the EEFord Foundation Leadership Speaker Series:  If Not Now? Pushing our Horizons so Schools Can Thrive, the National Business Officers Association: Strategic Leadership Triad: Confronting Crisis & Securing the Future, and the National Coalition of Girls' Schools Annual Conference: Taking Steps to be an Anti-Racist Institution.

She and her husband, Dr. Jonas F. Katkavich, live in Farmington, Conn. and are the parents of two sons, both of whom have attended boarding school.  Jack attended Taft and Phillips Academy Andover and is a 2017 graduate of Wesleyan University.  Henry “Mac,” is a 2021 graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and is now attending Wesleyan University.