Kate Cavett Associates

will always use various professionals when appropriate

Kate Cavett is our principal.

Kate Cavett grew up in outstate Minnesota, and lived most of her adult life in the city she loves, Saint Paul, or its surrounding communities. Kate loves stores, listening to stories, watching stories, evoking stories, preserving stories, and recognizing the legacy in the simplest story.

Cavett is the award-winning consulting producer from Oh Freedom Over Me, a radio documentary that considers the history of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 as a challenge to address racism today.

As an Oral Historian, she has had the joy of collecting and producing oral history projects. She had the opportunity to spend hundreds of hours listening to reflections on careers, neighborhoods, friends, sorrows, passions, racism, and legacies. She has loved supporting families and individuals with life reviews in the oral tradition. She co-lead a qualitative gang research project and conducted over 100 education workshops around Minnesota and nationally; conceived and developed girls gang intervention program.

Cavett won the 2006 Minnesota Book Award for Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community. Then completed the nation's largest law enforcement oral history project for the Saint Paul Police Department.

Cavett is a Minnesota Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselor (LADC), having had the privilege of working with clients in residential, outpatient and hospital facilities. She provides substance use assessments, psychoeducation, and case-management, while listening to their stories and supporting their making lifestyle choices.

Kate holds a BA in counseling from Metropolitan State in Saint Paul, MN and a MA in human development in Minneapolis, MN. Kate is trained in Talking CIRCLE facilitation. She completed INELDA's End-of-Life Doula training, and has National End-of-Life Doula Alliance Proficiency Badge.

Kate has presented to groups of 5 to 1,000 around the United States on various topics including street gangs.

When not engrossed in stories—movies, theater, reading, Kate finds joy in jazz, coloring, cooking, enjoying her friend and grandchildren, and her yorkie.