During law school, Katie worked in the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic and interned with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Prior to law school, she was a senior paralegal with the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), where she represented detained unaccompanied and forcibly separated noncitizen children. Katie graduated from St. Olaf College with a bachelor of arts and the University of Minnesota Law School with a juris doctor. She is licensed to practice in Illinois.