Kate Lipkis, a consultant for the Council Practitioners Center since its launch in 2006, was previously a council facilitator, mentor, retreat leader and program coordinator in the Los Angeles Unified School District and serves currently as consultant to Westwood Charter and Walgrove Elementary Schools. Kate has been working with communication dynamics for forty years, beginning as an award-winning advertising copywriter, authoring several community-organizing books as Vice President of TreePeople in Los Angeles, and empowering women as a homebirth midwife’s assistant.