Kate Kane is a Social Studies and Women's & Gender Studies teacher at La Pietra – Hawai‘i School for Girls. She teaches Civics and Hawaiian History, US History, Intro to Women's and Gender Studies, and Historical Perspectives on Women and Gender. Dr. Kane earned her Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and went on to receive her Ph.D. in American Studies, with a minor in Advance Feminist Studies, from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities.