Cate Mingoya

National Director of Climate Resilience and Land Use, Groundwork USA

Cate Mingoya serves as Groundwork USA’s National Director of Climate Resilience and Land Use. Originally from Queens, New York, Cate earned her B.A. in Biology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and returned east to teach middle school science at traditional public and charter schools in The Bronx and in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She went on to earn a Master of City Planning from MIT and has served as the Director of Policy and Program Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Division of Public Housing and Rental Assistance.

In her current role, Cate provides equitable development technical assistance for those looking to transform brownfields into community assets. Cate also leads Groundwork USA’s Climate Safe Neighborhoods, a thirteen-city partnership, to reduce heat and flooding-related risks in neighborhoods with histories of institutional, race-based housing discrimination.