Ms. Kathryn E. Palmer-House is a published and award winning resident of Dover Plains, NY and a longtime community activist. Besides serving as a Dover Town Councilwoman, she also serves as the Chaplain of the J.H. Ketcham Hose Company, is a member of the Dover Lions Club, and a Lector at St. Charles Borromeo Church. She is a recipient of the Dr. Betsy Crane Award from the Family Development Association of New York State, and in 1999, she was awarded the title of Dover Outstanding Citizen of the Year.
As the Senior Instructor and Research Associate in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University’s Empowering Families Project with the College of Human Ecology at Ithaca, New York, her professional career includes authoring a series of handbooks and manuals about strengthening skills for family workers and leaders. Published by Family Development Press, they are entitled; Empowerment Skills for Family Workers Instructor’s Manual; Empowerment Skills for Leaders: A Leader Handbook and Empowerment Skills for Leaders: Instructor’s Manual.
Ms. Palmer-House received her Ed. D. in Adult Learning and Leadership from the Teachers College at Columbia University and her M.A. in Community and Counseling Psychology from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.