Katy Flato is from Houston originally and graduated from the University of Texas, with a BA in English. She worked in the editorial department of Texas Monthly for ten years and was Managing Editor. In 1991, she joined the board of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation (SAPLF) and helped create their “Copyright Texas” author reading series to celebrate the opening of the Central Library. Katy is Executive Director of the San Antonio Book Festival, which SAPLF launched in September of 2012. The 3rd Annual SABF is on April 11.
Every great city has a great book festival. After only two years, the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is making a name for our city-on-the-rise, attracting authors with national acclaim and earning a reputation among city dwellers as a rich,
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020