Katherine Leonard, M.S.


Katherine is a digital asset manager, taxonomist, and knowledge manager with work experience in design, technology, and non-profit organizations. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Simmons University in Boston with a concentration in information science and technology. 

Before shifting her career to information management, Katherine worked as a senior content strategist at TOKY, a St. Louis-based branding and design firm. In this role, she conducted qualitative and quantitative brand research, developed content governance policies and workflows, and made information architecture recommendations for clients, including universities, museums, architecture firms, and public media organizations. Through these projects, she developed an interest in information organization, specifically taxonomies, metadata, and digital asset management. 

More recently, Katherine has worked in knowledge management at Electronic Arts (EA) and YMCA of the USA. In these roles, she focused on metadata, taxonomy, and the findability of data and internal resources. At the YMCA, she developed an enterprise taxonomy to help team members quickly find the information they need through the organization’s global knowledge-sharing platform.