Kitty Wooley founded the Senior Fellows and Friends conversational events network, now in Year 23, and is a district representative of the American Society for Public Administration. She spent 19 years at the U.S. Department of Education in San Francisco and Washington, DC after a decade in college administration. Positions at ED included institutional review specialist, risk specialist, and management and program analyst. She wrote a chapter ("Four New Models of Networked Leadership Development") in Innovations in Human Resource Management: Getting the Public’s Work Done in the 21st Century. She built bridges in every job across departments, generations, agencies, and sectors to get work done better - and you can too. She is the author of From Networking to Boundary Spanning: How you can get results inside large organizations (2026).