Kate For Council

Kate Anderson

FOR AGOURA HILLS CITY COUNCIL

2024

My Commitment to Agoura Hills

I pledge to keep our small town and rural feel, protect our open space and natural resources, and keep our community strong and welcoming.

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My Time in Agoura

My family moved to Agoura Hills in 2015 for many of the same reasons that so many of our neighbors did, the schools, the small-town feel, and the strong community.

I immediately got involved. I met Illece Buckley Weber and Linda Northrup through my involvement and could see that they shared the same values that brought us to Agoura Hills.

Mayor Buckley Weber appointed me to the Planning Commission in 2016 where I helped to shape the look and feel of development coming into our city, ensuring that we maintained our rural character and small-town feel. I was the sole vote against the Cornerstone development when it came to the Planning Commission. In addition to my service there, I also jumped in to help with my children’s theater activities, volunteering at shows and eventually joining the Board of Youth Musical Theater.

In my spare time, I read, bird watch a bit, swim (one of those crazy people who loves a cold plunge), do yoga, and watch fun TV with my husband (our latest is the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel).

Our children are both in college now, Eme is studying Ecology and Darby is studying Stage Management, and I am ready to devote more time to this very special city of ours.

Meet Kate Anderson

I was born in a small town in southern Illinois. We moved to California when I was 9 years old and it has been home to me ever since. I went to UCLA where I majored in Political Science and was elected Student Body President. From the hills of Westwood, I went to Capitol Hill first as an intern and then a Staff Assistant for Congressman Henry Waxman. I learned there that government can and should be a force for good and went to law school to strengthen my skills.. After graduating, I worked for a Judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and then went back to Capitol Hill again working for Congressman Waxman, this time as Counsel on the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. While there I helped to write a law fundamentally reforming the Postal Service, worked on addressing nursing home abuse, and helped to produce a major study on racial and economic voting disparities in the 2000 election.

I met my husband while in graduate school and, after we were married, I was able to convince him to move back home to California with me. I worked at a law firm while he pursued nonprofit work. We had identical twins in 2004 — Darby and Emeline. When I returned to work, I found an environment where many of my friends were also having children but having tremendous difficulty finding dependable childcare. I knew it didn’t have to be that way and, after many arduous years of advocacy, I convinced my law firm to open the first child care center sponsored by a law firm west of the Mississippi. It is still in operation to this day.

Opening that child care center awoke the advocate in me and I longed to get back to public service. I ran for State Assembly in 2010 for what was then the 53rd Congressional District. I was not successful but had met Congresswoman Jane Harman during the campaign and she recruited me to come work for her. She resigned from Congress not long after that and I have stayed in public service ever since. I went from Congresswoman Harman to Children Now, a statewide child advocacy organization where I helped to reopen our Los Angeles Office.

In 2016, I was hired to start and run the Center for Strategic Partnerships in Los Angeles County, an entity designed to build public-private partnerships to benefit kids and families in Los Angeles County.