Kathleen Michelle "Kathy" Foster[1] is an American musician best known as the bassist for the indie rock band The Thermals and drummer for the All Girl Summer Fun Band.

Foster was raised Catholic in Sunnyvale, California and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1998.

[3] With Foster on bass guitar, the Thermals became a mainstay of the Portland indie rock scene beginning in 2003.

[4][5] She continued to record and tour with the band until their 2018 dissolution.

Foster also recorded drums on two of the band's seven albums, The Body, the Blood, the Machine (2006) and Now We Can See (2009).