Kathryn Doherty Kurtz, PhD, NCSP

Kathryn serves as the Project Director of the BIRCh Project. She recently completed her doctorate in school psychology at UMass Boston, where she trained with the Boston Public Schools' Comprehensive Behavioral Health Model, the Home for Little Wanderers, and Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. Kurtz's prior work as a school psychologist in the Minneapolis Public Schools informs her research in the areas of cross-system collaboration, the cultural and contextual adaptation of interventions for implementation in urban communities, Tier 2 interventions targeting internalizing problems, and effective and efficient training practices.