She was a member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to Presidents Clinton and Bush and editor of Who Owns the Past? Cultural Property, Cultural Policy and the Law, Rutgers University Press, 2005. She is an expert on Central Asian textiles and their cultural context, and has written or co-written seven books on Asian textiles, including “IKAT: The Guido Goldman Collection,” which won the prestigious Wittenborn Prize for the Best Art Book of the Year. Kate was also a founding member of the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, and a past Program Chairman and Past President of TMA/SC.