Katie Poole is the founding board chair of The Pasadena Literary Alliance and current co-chair of their Open Book program. Katie has significant experience in leading for-profit and non-profit strategic and planning initiatives. While gradually growing the Literary Alliance, Katie also joined the Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy Board and Descanso Gardens Guild Board after 15 years at Walt Disney Imagineering’s Research and Development, where she directed software prototyping teams, pre-ceded by 10 years in technology companies. After years in planning and tech, Katie now contributes her professional planning background and UCLA MBA to the conservancy and literary efforts. Katie has three grown children who now reside on the west coast and a husband who is about to retire!