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BACKGROUND SKETCH 

KATHRYN B. WILSON 

Ms. Wilson brings to Robert Sellery Associates a background in fundraising and nonprofit management as well as experience in the fields of publishing, training, and human resource development. 

A native of New Canaan, Connecticut, Ms. Wilson received her B.A. degree with honors in American Studies from the George Washington University. Her M.S. in library service is from Columbia University, and she completed graduate work in American Studies at Emory University with an emphasis on American philanthropy. 

Ms. Wilson joined the firm in 2001 after serving as director of publishing and president of the Clark Wilson Group, a publisher of assessment and training materials for managers and leaders. Clark L. Wilson, Ph.D., an industrial psychologist and Ms. Wilson’s father, is credited with introducing the concept of 360-degree feedback to the management training and development field through his development of the Multi-Level Management Surveys in 1970.  

Previously, Ms. Wilson worked in the nonprofit community as a fundraiser. She was director of development for the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, and a fund-raising consultant and campaign manager for an AAFRC fund-raising consulting firm. Clients included independent schools, libraries, museums, and religious organizations. She also served in two professional librarian positions at Virginia Tech.  

Ms. Wilson’s publications include articles on fund-raising, philanthropy, and interlibrary cooperation. She has been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, American Society of Training and Development, Association of Test Publishers, Instructional Systems Association, Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists, and the American Library Association. 

Ms. Wilson has been invited to speak at forums on career development and executive search. 

Volunteer activities include: St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.: Vestry, Resource Management Committee, and Endowment Committee, and Secretary and Board member of the Cathedral Avenue Cooperative (residential building), Washington, DC. Ms. Wilson also served with the Georgia Shakespeare Festival as a founding member of the Board of Directors; and at the Carter Center of Emory University as assistant to the director of the Center’s $25 million national fund-raising campaign where she wrote an information booklet used by President Carter to recruit leadership. 

Ms. Wilson and her husband, writer and art critic Stephen May, reside in Washington, D.C. and mid-coast Maine.

   
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