Kate Krontiris is a musician, ethnographer, facilitator, and mother.

An American singer songwriter living in Sierra Leone, Kate’s folk orchestral sound combines layered vocal harmonies with poignant and honest lyrics about the human condition. Some of her songs blend these styles with Afrobeats, brass band, and funk influences. She is a co-founder of Telem Uncommon Sounds, an initiative designed to support and showcase unique and innovative musicians in Freetown. Kate is currently working on her premiere EP, a set of “music rituals,” to be released in 2024.

Her music can be found on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Soundcloud, and Instagram, among other platforms. She was selected as one of 70 participants from 23 countries around the world for the 2023 and 2024 Global Musicians Workshop, an initiative founded by Yo-Yo Ma to bring about greater cross-cultural understanding through music. She also participated in the Berklee at the Gnaoua and World Music Festival in 2024, alongside members of Telem Uncommon Sounds.

As an organizational development strategist, Kate has over 20 years of facilitation, mediation, and conflict resolution experience. She is the co-founder of the Facilitation Leadership Lab, which she launched to train others in the skills of facilitative leadership, and she has served as a consultant to Google, Facebook, the Trusted Elections Fund, Luminate, Mobius Executive Leadership, and the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Project, among others.  Kate also served as a consulting user researcher for the U.S. Digital Service within the Executive Office of President Barack Obama.

Kate is a graduate of Columbia University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.  For the 2015-2018 academic years, Kate was a fellow and then an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard University.

She is a proud alumna of the AmeriCorps National Service Program.  

Kate lives with her husband David Sengeh and their daughters Nyaanina and Peynina in Freetown, Sierra Leone.