Katharine Anne Cunningham ’01

Katharine Anne Cunningham ’01—who filled her 44 years with friendship, adventure, literature, good food, and family—died November 24, 2023, in Minneapolis three years after a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer. Kate graduated valedictorian from Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, and at Dartmouth studied in Barcelona, Spain, and graduated with a history degree. She then moved to Boston, where she met her future husband, Ben Pressgrove. Kate worked as a legal assistant in a law firm and a manager for the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership. Kate and Ben moved to North Carolina, where they married in 2009 and she earned her M.B.A. and master’s in city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. In 2010 they moved to the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where Kate began a career in affordable housing financing at U.S. Bank and welcomed children Eleanor and Oscar. Kate donated her time as a judge for Minnesota History Day and served on the boards of Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services, Minneapolis development finance committee, and Local Initiatives Support Corp. Twin Cities community investment committee. Kate achieved her goal to visit all 50 U.S. states when she and her family visited Alaska in August 2023. Kate loved to travel, and Ben surprised her with an anniversary trip in October 2023 to Paris. Kate is survived by Ben, Eleanor and Oscar, father Daniel, stepmother Jude, sister Carly, parents-in-law Mike and Bernie, sister-in-law Kim, and nephew Lewie.