Katie serves as Program Manager for the Statewide Early Literacy Education Collaborative of Tennessee (SELECT) at the Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation. She started her career as an early childhood teacher at a developmental preschool, taught Pre-K blended with Metro-Nashville Public Schools, and later served as a dean and assistant principal at an elementary charter school in Nashville, TN. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Criminology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and her Master of Education from Vanderbilt University in Early Childhood Special Education. Katie enjoys reading, doing puzzles, cheering on the Vols and hiking with her dog Rosemary.