Katherine Romans is the Executive Director of the Hill Country Alliance (HCA), a regional nonprofit focused on bringing a diverse constituency together to protect the water, land, communities, and night skies of the Texas Hill Country. Katherine also serves as the inaugural chair of the Texas Hill Country Conservation Network, a coalition of more than 75 nonprofits and academic institutions utilizing a collective impact approach to scale conservation in the region. Katherine brings more than two decades of nonprofit management, community engagement, communications, and legislative experience to bear on the natural resource challenges facing Central Texas. Under her leadership HCA has doubled in size, formalized its programmatic focal areas, and launched several new visionary collaborative conservation projects. Katherine holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. She resides in Austin, Texas with her husband and two young children.