Kathryn Winter
Executive Director
Kathryn Winter, Executive Director of Fair Housing Napa Valley, has over twenty years of public policy experience in Napa County as an elected Yountville Town Council Member, Napa County Supervisor, Napa County Planning Commissioner and long-term member of the Paratransit Coordinating Council where she participated as the Director of VanGo, the countywide transportation program for the elderly and disabled.
Prior to her tenure as executive director, Ms. Winter worked for three years in the Davis Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR). She was Director of the Local Government Partnership, a collaborative working group of cabinet secretaries, undersecretaries and state agency directors and the executive directors of organizations representing local government. Ms. Winter chaired statewide task forces advising OPR on the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) Incorporation Guidelines, Service Review Guidelines, and Business Continuity Planning for local government. She also participated in statewide Smart Growth Roundtables, the Governor’s Environmental Goals and Policies Report, and Rural Policy Task Force activities.
Ms. Winter was the Board of Supervisors representative to LAFCO for two years, and served on the board of the statewide California Local Agency Formation Commission (CALAFCO) association. She was also a member of the statewide Local Government Commission and on the Board of Directors from 1999 to 2000.
During her term on the Napa County Board of Supervisors, Ms. Winter represented Napa County on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and on the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Regional Planning Committee and Housing Methodology Committee. Locally, she helped create and chaired the Napa County Transportation Planning Agency and chaired the Napa Valley Housing Authority. She served on the county’s Housing Trust Fund Board, which distributed funds collected from an inclusionary housing ordinance for low-income housing developments in the urban areas.
Winter has an MA in Education/English. She taught high school English in northern California and on the Navajo and Hopi reservation for six years and was a writing instructor in the writing lab at Napa Valley College.
