Kat Taylor is active in a variety of social business, public benefit and philanthropic ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Currently, she focuses on beneficial banking services and food systems through two primary organizations. 

Kat and her husband, Tom Steyer, are the Founding Directors of OneCalifornia Bank and Foundation, a triple bottom line Federal Savings Bank in Oakland CA.  OneCalifornia Bank lends in low-income communities to support local economies and job creation.  It is also attempting to help low income individuals and households build and protect assets through fair and innovative banking products.  OneCalifornia hopes to expand throughout California and the West Coast.

Kat is also a Founding Director of TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation dedicated to a return to sustainable food production through ranching, tours, research, and school lunch and garden programs.  Related to that work, Kat is a Partner in INKA, a startup renewable food company pioneering closed loop food systems that use very little water, soil or other scarce resources and no harmful chemical agents to grow produce and fish in home, educational, and developing world settings.

Since 1986, Kat has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, a nonprofit entity which helps new immigrant families in San Francisco access needed services, stabilize in the country, develop self-sufficiency and participate in the community. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Insight Prison Project, a nonprofit organization working in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison. The project provides unique rehabilitation programs that help self-selected, motivated prisoners break the cycle of incarceration.

In prior non-profit work, Kat served as a member of the Board of Directors of KQED, Inc., the Bay Area and Northern California’s public radio and television station.  She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, multidisciplinary art center, located in the Yerba Buena Gardens district of downtown San Francisco, features visual arts, performing arts, film and educational programs, from 1996 to 2002.  Kat graduated from Harvard College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She earned a joint JD/MBA degree from the Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduating in 1986.