Kate Price is an Associate Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, a gender-based research institute at Wellesley College. She is also an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Institute and a senior research associate at a health and human services firm outside of Boston. Price received her master's degree in Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons College and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Price is an internationally recognized child sex trafficking expert whose work has influenced the passage of state-level children's human rights legislation. Price's work has been published in various scholarly journals and she is a member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Child Sex Trafficking Expert Working Group as well as a founding Advisory Board member of the U.S. branch of End Child Prostitution and Trafficking.

Price is the recipient of a Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize medal, a Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award from the International Centers for Research on Women and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship.