About Kate
Georgetown University visiting scholar, award–winning journalist and social entrepreneur Kate Woodsome has spent the last 20 years reporting and leading global teams through political unrest, public health crises, and social transformation. From Washington to Hong Kong, Cambodia to Cuba, she witnessed a recurring pattern: leaders operating in high-intensity environments without tools to understand how stress and trauma shape decision-making, polarization, and institutional culture.
Kate counted herself among them.
While at The Washington Post, she reported on the January 6 attack from the U.S. Capitol, coverage that helped the newsroom win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and left her with something more complex — a reckoning with burnout, trauma, and moral injury.
Turning Stress into Strategy
Kate left daily news in 2024, and began building the Invisible Threads Impact Lab to address the ties between mental health and democracy, a significant blind spot in social and political renewal efforts.
Through research, workshops, consulting, and the Invisible Threads Substack, the lab connects two essential insights: how democracies break down, and what our brains and bodies need to think clearly, build trust, and work well together.
Now certified in the neuroscience- and somatic-based Resilience Toolkit and pioneering new approaches to journalism and leadership, Kate brings the hard-won wisdom of someone who reached the top of her field, burned out in the process, and realized the old way of pushing through wasn’t working for her — or for the country.
In a moment when familiar approaches are breaking down, we need tools that help us understand differently, lead differently, and repair differently. We can do it — together.
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