Katie was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and studied public relations at the University of Alabama. Following graduation in 2012, she moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to participate in the Trinity Fellows program. Her fellows’ year and the subsequent four years she spent in Charlottesville were the most formative of her life so far. She faced unique challenges, grew in her faith, experienced God’s grace in ways she never had before, made lifelong friends, met her husband, and discovered that work could be so much more than just the “daily grind.” In 2017, Katie and her husband, Halston, relocated to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There they stayed connected to The Fellows Initiative as Halston employed many fellows over the years through his work.

In 2021, Katie and Halston found their way to Birmingham where they have thoroughly enjoyed living closer to family, raising their two young girls, Claire and Chloe, and getting involved with Covenant Presbyterian Church (joined in 2022). Katie is honored to be helping start the Iron City Fellows program and hopes to use all she learned and experienced during her time as a fellow to help shape the experience of those who choose to invest nine months of their life in this valuable way.