Katherine Freund

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katherine Freund
Occupation	American activist
Date Of Birth	May 5, 1950(1950-05-05)
Age	74
Birthplace	Long Island
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Taurus

Katherine Freund Biography

Katherine Freund is one of the most popular and richest American activist who was born on May 5, 1950 in Long Island, New York, United States.

She attended Levittown Memorial High School, and completed her degree in English Literature at University at Buffalo in 1972. She then attended graduate school for English Literature at the University of Washington but did not earn a degree. After enjoying a career as a florist, gardening columnist and gardening TV show host, she later pursued a Master of Arts in Public Policy from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine.

In 1988 Freund’s three-year-old son, Ryan, was run over by an 84-year-old driver who claimed to have mistaken her son for a dog. He survived a traumatic brain injury that resulted from the accident.

Katherine Freund Net Worth

Katherine Freund is one of the richest American activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katherine Freund 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Katherine Freund (born May 5, 1950) is an American activist who has spent decades of her life on alternative senior transportation solutions. She founded the Independent Transportation Network (ITN) in 1995, which in 2005 grew into ITNAmerica, a nonprofit transportation network for seniors and people with visual impairments in the United States. Freund has acted through her organization to offer dignified transportation alternatives for more than two decades, giving more than 1 million rides to older people and visually impaired individuals to date.

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Freund drew inspiration from the incident to seek solutions to the dangers inherent when seniors and visually impaired people drive. She pursued solutions through both policy and local action. She chaired the Maine’s Task Force to Study the Safe Mobility of Maine’s Aging Population, created by the Maine Legislature in 1993. This work helped her eventually conceive of an organization that would provide rides in private automobiles, recreating the comfort, independence and dignity that individuals experience when they drive their own cars. She founded the Independent Transportation Network (ITN) in 1995, and developed an early social entrepreneurship model over time as she refined the service through research and experience. ITN was initially funded by AARP, the Federal Transit Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Transportation Research Board and numerous private philanthropies as it grew into a sustainable organization with a replicable model.

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Katia Ranked on the list of most popular American activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Katherine Freund celebrates birthday on May 5 of every year.