Interchange is a podcast brought to you by GIA Publications, a conversation about music, liturgy and all the in between spaces.

With a multidisciplinary approach, Interchange seeks to offer innovative perspectives that help expand knowledge, navigate challenges and therefore deepen our vocation as ministers of the sung prayer. In each episode, our host Kate Williams and her guests share experiences and knowledge within a context of faith, music and service to the people of God.

Kate Williams is the Vice President of Sacred Music at GIA Publications, Inc. She holds a Bachelor of Music Composition degree from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois as well as a Masters of Arts in Liturgical Studies degree from Catholic Theological Union in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago where it was her privilege to study as a distinguished Bernardin Scholar. Kate is the editor of Gather—Fourth Edition, the latest edition of the nation’s most well-known hard-bound hymnal, as well as the editor of Of Womb and Tomb: Prayer in Time of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth. Most recently, Kate was a co-editor of The Fire This Time: A Black Catholic Sourcebook. 

She serves as workshop leader, consultant, and musician in the Archdiocese of Chicago and abroad, following a passion to serve in multicultural, multigenerational communities, while mentoring young voices and building bridges through music ministry.