Katie Nzekwu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Found Village, a nonprofit leveraging a community of adult volunteers and mentors to help youth in foster care regain the ability to trust others.
While traditional mentorship models emphasize one-on-one relationships that can end prematurely and undermine the youth’s ability to trust, Found Village begins with a single mentoring relationship and then extends that trust to a wider network, providing family-like support that acts like a “village” around each youth. Found Village engagement extends into early adulthood, ensuring all youth are connected to a community and have been mobilized out of poverty.
Katie delivered this speech at Stand Together Foundation’s August 2022 Catalyst Summit in Denver, Colorado to an audience of over 300 nonprofit leaders. Katie shares her own personal story of transformation and how Found Village brings a holistic approach to supporting you in foster care across the nation.
