It was 2am in Caracas, Venezuela when Katie Nelson Thomson had to wake up the legendary Barbara Walters to tell her that President Hugo Chavez had just cancelled his interview scheduled for that afternoon. It was a dangerous and expensive trip but Thomson had worked tirelessly to secure the interview which was important given the escalated rhetoric aimed at U.S. President Bush by Chavez. Her team had traveled through Venezuela via armored cars surrounded by security guards and Thomson was not about to back down to what felt like a last-minute power play by the unpredictable and autocratic leader. She called Chavez’ Communications Minister, convinced him to meet with her that night and the interview was rescheduled. Fortitude in the face of resistance and never taking no for the final answer has been the hallmark of Thomson’s career capturing the stories of impactful people and decisive moments in history.
The recipient of the 2025 SRQ Women Who Roar Trailblazer Award, presented to a woman who is courageous and innovative in pursuit of her dreams, Thomson’s legacy spans decades of high-stakes journalism, history-making interviews and culture-defining television. Currently the powerhouse senior talent producer behind HBO‘s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, she has held positions as senior broadcast producer of CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, spent 15 years at ABC News working alongside legendary journalist Barbara Walters where she produced award-winning segments and interviews for 20/20 and The Barbara Walters Specials and was a producer on CNN’s Larry King Live where she booked and produced newsmaker interviews with political, business and entertainment luminaries.
Thomson played a key role in ABC’s Emmy Award-winning coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks, securing first interviews with President George W. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the aftermath of the tragedy. She also booked Larry King’s historic Al Gore / Ross Perot NAFTA Debate, which set a cable news ratings record. She has produced interviews with every U.S. president since Jimmy Carter and with many world leaders, including Fidel Castro, Benjamin Netanyahu, King Abdullah and Queen Rania, Slobodan Milosevic, Benazir Bhutto, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Oscar Arias, Hugo Chávez, the Dalai Lama and an unprecedented joint interview with Yitzhak Shamir, Yasser Arafat and King Hussein.
Her portfolio also includes exclusive interviews with Martha Stewart, Christopher Reeve, Queen Noor of Jordan and Oprah Winfrey. She has scored interviews with newsmakers including Stephen Hawking, Edward Snowden, Monica Lewinsky, Colin Powell, Jane Goodall, and her celebrity interviews have covered icons such as Angelina Jolie, Michael Jackson, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Julie Andrews, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand, David Letterman, Steven Spielberg, Patrick Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Simon, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel and many more.
Thomson’s formidable career is all the more impressive in light of her childhood in a small southern town far from the world stage and her own life has been just as interesting as the stories she covers. Growing up in the storybook town of Winter Park, Florida, Thomson lived a relatively sheltered life and no one at that point could foresee she would go on to interview the top names in the news from movie stars to world leaders to mass murderers. However, there were hints at what was to be an incredible journey and flashes of her extraordinary fortitude. She was the editor of her high school newspaper and in college at Vanderbilt, she worked on the speakers committee that brought famous people to the university. After graduation, her practical plan was to become a lawyer but she decided instead to defer law school for a year and attend a theater program in London. Right before she was set to leave, the program was cancelled due to the 1986 IRA bombings. She pivoted and instead landed an internship working with political reporters for the McLaughlin Group in Washington, DC. While there, she met and married her first husband who worked for the U.S. Department of State and soon after moved with him to London for his diplomatic assignment. In the U.K., Thomson held temp jobs while trying to secure a post at the BBC. The news organization was competitive at the best of times, but at that point, they were downsizing and it was especially hard to get a job there. On the way to her temp job one day, she was hit by a car walking across the road. Though ordered by her doctor to be on bed rest, Thomson received an invitation to a birthday party she couldn’t refuse. She knew potential media contacts would be in attendance and rather than miss her chance, she hobbled into the festivities, black and blue and on crutches, where she met a BBC producer who was duly impressed with the determined ‘crazy American’ and offered her a meeting at the network a few weeks later. After a grueling process of multiple interviews, Thomson landed the BBC job which led to her covering the British elections. She was the only American in the studio when John Major was elected.
Moving back to the states, Thomson joined CNN’s Larry King Live where she dove headfirst into the relentless nature of her industry. She says, “It really was the roller coaster depicted on Broadcast News and then some! I had to juggle long-term projects with reacting to breaking news. I would work all day through the live show from 9-10pm, then often stay later trying to book world leaders in different time zones. I still have kind of PTSD when I see the breaking news banner on the TV because I’m like, ‘Oh my God, what’s happened? Who do I have to call? Where do I have to go?’” To say that some of her interviews were surreal and the topics unsettling would be a huge understatement. She met with Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber in the Colorado “Supermax” prison twice, spent Valentine’s Day with Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Railroad mass murderer in the Nassau County Correction Facility and visited accused murderer Robert Blake in the LA County Jail, who surprised the pregnant journalist by suddenly serenading her unborn baby. And she produced interviews with nearly every person involved in the O.J. Simpson murder trial as they recalled every lurid detail of the case.
It wasn’t all gore and gloom however. Michael Jackson showed her how to Moonwalk, Jordan’s Queen Noor arranged a camel ride for her in the sandstone ruins of Petra and Elizabeth Taylor let her try on her fabulous sparkling gems. She learned about the science-backed benefits of Buddhist meditation from the four interviews she produced with the Dalai Lama—something she still struggles to utilize in her hectic life.
And while she says she is shy and hates being in front of the camera, somehow it has always found her. When you look at the major cultural and news events over the past 35 years, when something important was happening somewhere in the world, Thomson was likely there. If Thomson’s portfolio looks like the Who’s Who of the past three decades, her own life looks like “Where’s Waldo”—the nickname given to her by friends and colleagues who constantly see photos or footage of her appearing in major news stories. She says, “In all these news stories of a certain era, you see me in the footage. If you look, I’m there. I’m in a car with Monica Lewinsky, where they describe me as her 20-something friend, in a classroom with Fidel Castro, walking with Kato Kaelin, sitting behind Michael Jackson’s children at his memorial service, in formal attire with Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother.” She explains, “I brought him to the White House Correspondents Dinner, but the British tabloids jumped to the conclusion I was his new girlfriend. I’d borrowed a diamond necklace from a jeweler friend and the British press said, ‘Look, he’s already giving her jewelry!’ Recently friends have been texting me to say I just saw you in the new Christopher Reeve documentary.”
Warm and friendly with a self-deprecating sense of humor, a necessary tool in disarming and charming her reluctant subjects into spilling their secrets, under Thomson’s self-effacing demeanor lies a steely resolve. Her starting gate is “no” and she operates from there to accomplish her goals which include helping to make the world a better place. While all of her stories captured the collective attention garnering huge ratings for each network, it was the interviews that had the potential to change narratives and create positive impact that mean the most to her.
One of her proudest moments at Larry King Live was securing an unprecedented series of bookings referred to as a “King Sized Week” in television. She snagged the only joint interview with three Middle East leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Jordan’s King Hussein, months before the Israeli PM was assassinated in 1995. The interview was filled with optimism amidst friction and Larry King called it “one of the most historic nights I ever did.” At the same time, Thomson had also booked rare interviews for the show with Barbra Streisand and David Letterman. She says, “All night long I was on the phone and faxing information back and forth with the Middle East and then all day long I was dealing with Barbra Streisand and her manager and it was as much work to get her interview as to get the three Middle East leaders.”
It was during this time that Barbara Walters had expressed interest in hiring her. Her first inkling was when OJ Simpson trial figures Kato Kaelin and Robert Kardashian told her Barbara Walters had been asking about her. Thomson recalls, “ABC had started to recruit me but I didn’t want to leave Larry King. I was happy there but it’s sort of hard to say no to Barbara Walters, whom I greatly admired.” She agreed to meet with Walters but her frenetic schedule kept getting in the way. “The first time they flew me to New York to meet her, I didn’t tell anyone at Larry King Live. We worked in shifts and sometimes I would work through the night and not have to come in as early the next day. So I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll fly to New York in the morning and then I’ll be back for the show.’” At the time the Bosnian War was raging and Thomson had secured an interview with Slobodan Miloševic, the President of Serbia and a central figure in the conflict, for a rare interview with Larry King. She had just arrived at ABC for her interview with Walters but says, “When they were about to bring me into Barbara, I got a call that my Miloševic story was starting to go south, so I said, ‘I’m really sorry I have to go back,’ and I left before meeting Barbara. The second time we were going to meet, I had booked an interview with Oprah Winfrey for Larry and I had to go to Chicago so I had to cancel again.” But providentially, she found herself in Los Angeles covering the O.J. Simpson trial at the same time as Walters and after this meeting she was offered the job. Without a break, the Monday after her “King Sized Week”, Thomson started her role at ABC. “But as soon as I walked in the office they told me I needed to fly that night to Oklahoma City to meet with Timothy McVeigh’s lawyer. I got stranded in Denver en route and barely had any sleep before catching the first plane out.”
Thomson notes that pressure to manage multiple converging interviews is overwhelming. She says, “It takes a lot of work to get one interview and once I get it, I don’t count it as an interview until the camera stops rolling. It could go away before they sit down or they could get up in the middle of the interview and leave. That has happened. For every major interview I landed, there were many I worked just as hard on that never happened. I worked during the peak era of the “big get” where there was intense competition to get the first interview with newsmakers. Those interviews led to huge ratings and profits. When I went from Larry King to Barbara Walters, I figured I’d just call up and say the name Barbara Walters and it would be case closed—we would get the interview. But even working with Barbara we had to fight for each one. Barbara only wanted to interview the principal and she had to be first—she just wanted that one exclusive interview,” she says.
Those exclusives required nerves of steel to coordinate—not just because of the ratings but due to their potential global impact. She remembers, “Two minutes after the live interview with Miloševic aired, I got a call from my contact who said that Boris Yeltsin had been watching and called Miloševic and it sounded like he was pressuring him to make a peace deal. I read afterwards that there was progress in that direction. It was amazing to see that we could have an impact diplomatically and I think it’s important to interview news makers, especially politicians and leaders, to have them answer tough questions and explain what they’re doing.” She adds, “I would help Barbara write the questions and sometimes she would say, ‘I can’t ask that Katie, you’re not the one sitting there.’ But when the time came she would always ask the tough ones.”
Even the intimidating subjects weren’t exempt from Walters’ questions. When she interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin after the 9/11 terror attacks, Thomson recalls it was a very daunting environment. She says, “We were followed the whole time we were in Moscow. It was creepy. Then Putin threatened to cancel right before the interview because he said our equipment damaged a wall in the Kremlin. When he finally sat down to speak with Barbara, she asked him, ‘Have you ever killed anyone or caused anyone to be killed?’ It was a very tough question and I had never seen a journalist ask him that before. Of course, he said “nyet” (no).”
Walters was just as tough on herself and she expected everyone to rise to her standards but she also recognized hard work. Thomson was working round the clock and a new development would be met with a surprisingly welcome response. “It had taken a while, but when I finally told her that I was pregnant she said, ‘thank God’ because I was working so much she thought I wasn’t going to have a family. She gave me a baby shower, which was really nice, and when she would find me in the office late, she’d order me to go home. She knew it was good for her that I was there, but I worked past my due date and she was trying to save me from myself,” she says. But even Walters’ concerns couldn’t stop her determined producer from going to Havana to meet with a dictator.
At eight months pregnant, Thomson flew to Cuba for an interview with Fidel Castro that she had been working years to secure. She was just shy of her doctor’s deadline prohibiting air travel, and she was having a very easy pregnancy so nothing was going to stop her from making the trip. But an interesting thing happened during the interview. Thomson’s baby was apparently not amused by the Cuban leader’s lack of honesty and when Casto lied she would kick. Thomson recalls, “He said, ‘We’re the freest country on earth!’ Kick. ‘We have absolutely no political prisoners!’ Kick, kick. ‘Our economy is great!’ Kick, kick, kick. It was so unusual for my daughter to kick like that and when she was older, she would say, ‘Whenever the dictator lied, I kicked.’”
It takes a huge amount of drive to spend your life on-call juggling multiple crises and deadlines every moment of the day and Thomson admits that at certain points, “I really didn’t have an overarching goal. I just went from one thing to another but I was competitive and it felt really good when we got the first interview, and it felt really bad when we didn’t. However, I have always been drawn to stories where people have a perception of someone in the news that is completely wrong.” One example she points to was huge in the cultural zeitgeist of the time, the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton scandal. Thomson says, “Monica Lewinsky is not the way she was portrayed at the time and people are seeing it now. If you listen to her podcast, which is excellent, you can hear how smart she is. By her own admission, she made a bad mistake with Clinton, but I think it was terrible the way she was vilified.” Lewinsky didn’t want her story to become public. But the story was out and Thomson thought her team could cover it in a more balanced way. She notes, “To her credit, Lewinsky turned down a million-dollar offer from Fox to do the interview with Barbara Walters for free. Barbara even said, ‘She’s a young girl, she has all these legal bills, she should just take the money.’” But Thomson thought that if she took the paid interview with Fox she would never revive her reputation, and Lewinsky eventually agreed. So after a year of effort Thomson finally confirmed the exclusive Walters-Lewinsky interview and spent weeks preparing the two-hour special which was seen by over 70 million viewers and is still the highest-rated news event broadcast by a single network. “I was hoping that the interview we did with her would change her life and hopefully it made it better,” she says.
Of all the stories Thomson has covered and people she has met, perhaps none has had as much of a personal impact on her as the many interviews with Christopher Reeve, the handsome actor best known for playing Superman, after a riding accident left him severely paralyzed. She says, “It was so poignant and inspiring. He went from being an avid athlete participating in equestrian competitions, sailing, scuba diving and soccer, to not being able to move except to slightly turn his head and not able to breathe on his own. The mental strength it took to turn that tragedy into action, helping others who are paralyzed, was something I’ll never forget.” After his accident, Thomson recalls, “Reeve had a genius idea to do a remake of the Jimmy Stewart movie Rear Window in which a man in a wheelchair is witness to a murder and becomes a target himself. The tension in those scenes was upped because the character was not just in a wheelchair but was actually paralyzed and on a ventilator. I got to follow him around on set and it was amazing that he was able to get back to acting and to be able to watch his psychological strength.”
Thomson’s own resilience enabled her to forge through difficult times but there were still sacrifices required by her industry—especially for women. Her schedule made spending time with family extremely difficult and she notes, “When my daughter was a toddler, I remember her hiding my Blackberry in her crib under the mattress. She’s seen how tough it can be.” The downplaying of personal priorities was rampant in television during the 80’s and 90’s and no female working in the arena was immune to its effects. Thomson recalls, “Barbara told me a story that she wrote about later in her book, when she had a miscarriage in the middle of the night and two hours later she had to get in her car to go to the Today Show and be on air. That’s just how it was. And especially as a woman in Barbara’s day, you couldn’t say you had a ‘female issue’ of any kind. You just couldn’t put your family first as a woman back in the day, even when I was there, if you didn’t do the job there were 10 people waiting in line who would.”
Though her career started in a different time than Walters, she faced the same pressure. She says, “It was very competitive and I regret the time I missed with my daughter. I loved being with her and spent all the free time I had with her but it was hard with my schedule. I remember getting into her little bed to read to her at night but I was so tired I would always fall asleep. When I could, I would bring her to studio tapings with me and on fun work assignments. I took her on the set of Hannah Montana and to children’s movie premieres. She was invited by Miley Cyrus to attend the High School Musical 2 premiere at Disneyland, met the family of Steve Irwin at their zoo in Australia and played with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at a Fat Albert screening, so she had some amazing experiences and we had a wonderful nanny who helped out a lot but I do feel like she missed out on a lot as well because I was working so much.”
Times are different and Thomson is relieved that the culture of her industry has changed. She says, “The whole media business is so different now and the kind of shows and types of jobs I had 20 or 30 years ago don’t even exist now. The younger generations are definitely better about setting boundaries.” But the grueling pace of her early career years had taken its toll and just when Thomson was hitting a milestone at ABC, she faced a crossroads with two major blows. Her marriage dissolved and Barbara Walters announced she was going to retire. At the same time, Piers Morgan was hired by CNN to take the Larry King time slot for Piers Morgan Tonight and the network was actively pursuing her. She says, “I didn’t really want to leave ABC. I did meet with Piers Morgan but I kind of put it out of my mind, thinking it wasn’t going to happen and then all of a sudden, they offered me the job.” Walters said, ‘You have to take the job, it’s a lot of money and I’m leaving.’ It was a difficult decision for me but I took it. I left a 15-year job and a 20-year marriage at the same time and it was really hard.”
After starting her new job at CNN, the format of the show quickly changed from long-form content to breaking news. In her new stage of life as a single mother, she realized that the show wasn’t a good fit. But the experience led to something better. While travelling for Piers Morgan Tonight, a complimentary upgrade on the redeye flight to first class changed her life. She says, “I used to get a lot of complimentary upgrades, but you never get upgrades on the red eye.” And she never met or spoke with anyone in all her years of travel. But this flight was different. She ended up in conversation with the man sitting next to her, fell in love and is now happily married. She says, “I don’t believe in fate, but had I stayed at ABC and not been traveling for Piers Morgan, I probably never would have met my amazing husband. So it was worth it from that point of view. I wasn’t the right fit for that show at that time, but the experience ended up being good for the long term.”
And more good news was on the horizon—she found the job of her dreams—one that combined her love of entertainment with investigative journalism, advocacy for important issues and a little dash of humor to keep viewers on their toes. In 2014 she joined HBO and helped launch the network’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The show is particularly popular with young people who don’t tune into traditional television programs. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has won three Peabody Awards for offering ‘something completely new in the merger of comedy and reporting’ as well as 30 Emmys. Thomson brought her trademark persistence to the show and was instrumental in generating momentum from the start. She says, “It was almost impossible to get a guest for the first show since it was an unknown quantity.” After scores of “no’s,” she was eventually able to get an exclusive exit interview with National Security Agency Chief Keith Alexander in the wake of the Edward Snowden NSA crisis, which had the world buzzing with speculation and outrage. However, the cancellation gremlin that had dogged Thomson for much of her career reared its ugly head again, forcing her to spring into action. After General Alexander agreed, an outside PR firm vetoed the interview. Thomson was about to catch a flight home for Easter when she got the news and immediately cancelled her trip. She worked nonstop to get a direct line to the General and when she finally reached him. “To his credit, he honored his original commitment. Afterwards, he emailed me saying he hoped they appreciated me,” she says. She was on a roll after that and again went straight for the ‘tough get’ booking, extremely rare interviews with the elusive Edward Snowden and legendary Stephen Hawking. She says, “Both gave very few interviews so it took some work.”
In June 2013, Edward Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor, leaked classified documents revealing the U.S. government’s extensive global surveillance programs, including the mass collection of phone and internet data. He shared this information with journalists, prompting a worldwide debate on mass surveillance and privacy. The U.S. government charged Snowden with espionage, leading him to flee to Russia, where he currently resides and holds citizenship.
Even before Last Week Tonight went on the air, Thomson had been working to get an interview with Snowden. There was a connection with John Oliver that made the story a natural fit. Oliver had been chosen to take over as temporary host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show while Jon Stewart was making a movie. The first day Oliver hosted the show the Snowden story broke. Thomson says, “I thought it would be amazing to get Snowden as a guest for Last Week Tonight since he had not given any TV interviews after his actions became public and he fled the country. I wasn’t able to get Snowden for the first show; NBC News ended up getting the first interview, but I got the second interview.”
Thomson continues,“To communicate with Snowden I had to use a complicated computer encryption program so that all our messages were sent in a coded format that had to be decoded after receiving them. After months of effort I finally made some progress by tying an interview with Snowden to the congressional debate on whether to renew the Patriot Act, which had been enacted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and allowed for mass collection of telephone metadata and other records by the U.S. government. This and other provisions were set to expire on June 1, 2015. Snowden did not want the Patriot Act provisions to be renewed, so he finally agreed to an interview in April 2015 to call attention to the issue.” But before agreeing to the interview, Snowden wanted to “meet” with John Oliver and Thomson. As he was in Russia, he devised a robot with a video screen live-streaming his face as his physical representative. She says, “ I’ve had a lot of strange, secret meetings in my career, but the conversation with the Robot Snowden, or ‘Snobot’, was definitely in the top ten. Although oddly, it was a more normal conversation than I would have thought, as I could see his face, and he could move around, turn his ‘head’ and nod, so it was a real dialogue.” After the meeting, Snowden finally agreed to an interview with Oliver. The only issue was it had to be in Moscow, where he was hiding in order to evade arrest in the U.S. John Oliver had been very critical of Vladimir Putin, and there were security concerns about him traveling to Russia, with some people advising against it, but he decided it was worth the risk. Thomson says, “Due to Snowden’s security concerns, we had no immediate way to reach him in Russia. It is the ONLY interview in my career that I arranged with no emergency contact number to reach the guest that day. Snowden’s lawyer was away on vacation, and the encryption program we used did not allow for immediate communication. So it was beyond stressful when Snowden failed to show up for the interview. Not for the first time, I saw my career pass before my eyes.” John Oliver rattled off a hilarious stream of consciousness commentary on the odds that Snowden would show up as the clock ticked off the minutes until he finally arrived an hour late. “Thankfully he eventually showed up!”
Thomson’s interview with Stephen Hawking was also challenging. A theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Hawking was considered one of the smartest people in the world, best known for his theories and work on black holes which changed the world’s view of the universe. “I remember thinking how funny it was to be emailing with one of the greatest minds in history. There was definitely a disparity in brain power between us!” she says. Thomson recalls, “Stephen was very friendly and actually had a great sense of humor. He was excited about a joke he wrote to roast John Oliver. John asked, ‘You stated that there could be an infinite number of parallel universes, does that mean that there is a universe out there where I am smarter than you?’ And Hawking replied, ‘Yes, and also a universe where you’re funny.’ Something else struck her about the groundbreaking 2014 interview with Hawking—a sense of foreshadowing. She says, “Stephen Hawking thought that AI was one of the greatest threats to humanity. He said that ‘Artificial Intelligence could be a real danger in the not-too-distant future. It could design improvements to itself and outsmart us all.’”
When she speaks about her current role it is clear Thomson is passionate about her work on a show which provides news perspectives in an entertaining format that affects positive change in the world. Last Week Tonight has become known for the ‘John Oliver Effect,’ its comedic commentary credited with influencing US legislation, regulations, court rulings and other aspects of US culture. The show has rallied viewers on behalf of important causes such as criminal justice reform, affordable housing and pay equity for women. She says, “What I like about working with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is that all the information we put out is carefully fact-checked. In addition to great comedy writers, the show has top journalists so that we are putting out good, vetted info and in some cases doing some investigative reporting ourselves. And it has contributed to some positive change in the world.”
Along with booking newsmakers on the show Thomson gets A-list celebrities to tape funny bits that help bring home the points the show makes on the serious topics it covers. To that end, she has booked Lin-Manuel Miranda to write and perform a song about Puerto Rico’s debt crisis; George Clooney, Rose Byrne and Jason Sudeikis appeared in different pieces about the importance of local journalism, she arranged for Usher, Sheryl Crow, Cyndi Lauper, Heart, Imagine Dragons, John Mellencamp and Michael Bolton to sing a song the show created to demand that politicians stop using their music in campaigns without their permission. And when John Oliver did a piece about U.S. tensions with North Korea, she convinced Weird Al Yankovic to perform an original song he and the Last Week Tonight team came up with called “Please Don’t Nuke Us, North Korea” because North Koreans love the accordion.
While reflecting on the amazing path she has led and all the notable people she has met, Thomson is clearly relishing the chapter she is in now and she notes the most important lesson she has learned is that the key element in life is not to give up. She says, “I’ve always had a lot of uncertainty. I was never sure what was the right thing to say or do and I had the idea that everyone else had things figured out. But then I realized that many successful people are just as unsure; they just hide it publicly and move forward beyond it. Even Barbara Walters often struggled with ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda.’ So you need to learn from it. When you look at the most successful people, they have had terrible failures and often multiple failures but they are ones that just keep trying. They learn from it and they just keep going and they don’t give up. With her indefatigable determination, sheer fortitude and the ability to keep going against the odds, Thomson shares the roar of persistence by her very successful example.
Katie Nelson Thomson will be recognized at the 10th Annual Women Who Roar Leadership Awards Luncheon on Friday, October 31, 2025 at Michael's On East.
