Katie's career in public service includes key roles in government (The White House), business (GSK), and the nonprofit sector (Achieving the Dream) as well as with the national and now the local chamber of commerce. She is a strategic communications and government affairs executive with twenty years of management and leadership experience. Her specialty is developing and directing meaningful, multi-sector partnerships that transform lives and improve communities.

Globally and nationally, Katie is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance and on the Advisory Boards for the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center and the UNC Educational Foundation (The Rams Club). In May 2012, Katie participated as a delegate for the US Department of State-sponsored program to Israel and the West Bank coordinated by the American Council of Young Political Leaders. In 1995, she captained the USA Under-19 Women’s Lacrosse Team to a silver medal in the world championship.

Statewide and regionally, Katie is on the Board of Directors for the UNC School of Government Foundation, the Regional Partnership Workforce Development Board, the Durham Tech Foundation, and the American Association of University Women (regional branch). In addition, she is the rising Chair of the Regional Advisory Board of the Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) Central Carolina Region, which includes two centers (UNC-Chapel Hill and NCCU) and serves six counties (Orange, Durham, Alamance, Lee, Person, and Chatham). In this latter role, Katie represents the SBTDC Central Carolina Region on the SBTDC Statewide Advisory Board.

Locally, Katie is an appointee to the Orange County Local Reentry Council and the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership Board of Directors. She is a sustaining member of the Junior League and a volunteer mentor with the NC Study Center and the Ram's Club FORevHER Initiative for UNC female student-athletes.

Committed to leadership development, Katie is a Lean Six Sigma IASSC Certified Yellow Belt™ (2020) and a graduate of the US Chamber Foundation's Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) Academy (2020), Leadership North Carolina (2018), the Town of Chapel Hill's Inaugural Peoples Academy (2018), and Leadership Chapel Hill-Carrboro (2017). Currently, she directs Leadership Chapel Hill-Carrboro as an important part of her role at The Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro, where she directs the external relations division encompassing government affairs and advocacy, workforce and economic development, and community relations and strategic partnerships. Katie is simultaneously earning her doctorate (Ed.D.) in Community College Leadership from NC State University, where she served as a Fellow with the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research (2019-2020).

Katie earned an MPA (2002) and BA in Communication Studies with honors (1999) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she co-captained the NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Team. There is an endowed scholarship in her name. Currently, she is an Adjunct Faculty member for the UNC School of Government teaching master’s level nonprofit management. As a Master Gardener (2015-2016), she is delighted to live in “Blue Heaven” and cultivate four beautiful acres of native trees and plants.