Kathy Gersper has served in the position of OCSEA Secretary-Treasurer for over a decade and was elected in 2019 to her fifth four-year term as Secretary-Treasurer of OCSEA.

Kathy has served on past bargaining teams, sits on the Ohio AFL-CIO Executive Board and is Vice President (and former Secretary-Treasurer) of the Central Ohio Union Label. She also sat on the AFSCME Women’s Action Committee until the committee was disbanded. Kathy serves as Chair of the statewide Finance Committee and is a graduate of the Harvard University Trade Union Program.

In Gersper's position as an Accountant/Examiner 3 with the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission (formerly State Architects Office), she has been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of construction funds for the State of Ohio. She has devoted herself to charitable work, annually collecting hundreds of teddy bears for children at Central Ohio domestic violence shelters statewide.