Her Campus Remembers 9/11

Biography

A University of Pennsylvania senior from Newton, Mass., Katie most enjoys friends, non-fiction, and dessert. While she is technically supposed to be fulfilling mathematics requirements in Philadelphia at the moment, she is instead taking a hiatus from her formal education to work as an editorial assistant at Vanity Fair in New York City, where she was an American Society of Magazine Editors intern and the company softball team’s catcher last summer. A penal reform enthusiast, she is also in the process of visiting and reporting a feature on prisons—an adventure about which she is thrilled but her parents are very displeased. She studied abroad in Norway in the fall of 2010, and, upon realizing she likes neither cold nor darkness and will never be able to write in Norwegian, returned to the States in search of daylight. After a brief stopover in New York, where she freelanced for Glamour and went “undercover” online dating, she returned to Penn to continue studying Urban Studies and Journalistic Writing, all the while conducting extensive research on Friday Night Lights, Dave Matthews, and the world’s finest baked goods. Katie has apprenticed for journalists Stephen Fried and Kathryn Watterson and has also interned at Marie Claire, Seventeen and Philadelphia magazine. She is currently working on her first book.