Expertise
Evaluation
Katie sees evaluation as a means of empowering communities to create the tools and resources necessary to meet their self-determined goals. She enjoys using her background in program coordination to develop evaluation questions that are meaningful to client organizations and the community members they serve. Katie especially finds joy in facilitating workshops.
Mental Health
Katie views individual mental health as a central driver of community success and wellness. In many of her roles, she has focused on how mental health intersects with an individual’s community involvement and access to resources. This work informs Katie’s equity lens as an evaluator. Katie is currently a member of Minnesota’s State Advisory Council on Mental Health, informing mental health policy and action within the state.
Youth Work
Working with youth has been a constant throughout Katie’s career. She is skilled in helping young people articulate their needs and desires related to program considerations. She especially takes pride in her ability to create supportive environments for youth to discuss challenging topics like mental health and sexual health.
Professional Experience
The Improve Group | St. Paul, MN | Associate Consultant | 2025-present | Works collaboratively with project teams to gather and make meaning of information, navigate complexity, and ensure clients’ investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact.
Friends for a Nonviolent World | St. Paul, MN | AVP-MN Program Coordinator | 2023-2024 | Adapted and implemented a conflict transformation program, the Alternatives to Violence Project, for youth ages 10-30 in Hennepin County, MN.
Minneapolis Health Department | Minneapolis, MN | Program Development Intern | 2022-2023 | Conducted and analyzed a survey assessing high school students’ attitudes and experiences related to consent and harassment in digital environments.
Face to Face | St. Paul, MN| Research Consultant | 2021 | Conducted a literature review related to all organizational programming to inform grant writing efforts.
Minneapolis Public Schools | Minneapolis, MN | AVID Tutor | 2020-2021 | Facilitated small-group tutoring sessions for middle and high school students using a Socratic method, assisting them across all academic areas.
University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development | Minneapolis, MN | Research Assistant | 2019-2020 | Conducted a literature review to disseminate modes of support and interventions for young children with autism.
Learn to Live | Minneapolis, MN | Research Intern | 2018 | Evaluated the relationships between risk of academic attrition satisfaction with a digital cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) program module.
Uplift – Online Communities Against Sexual Violence | Richfield, MN | Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director | Developed and directed programming related to combatting sexual violence in online communities through advocacy and education.
Education
University of Minnesota | Master of Public Health in Community Health Promotion, with graduate minors in Health Equity and Sexual Health
St. Catherine University | Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with an emphasis in Mental Health and Child Development
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