Katie tells stories about people who find meaning in unlikely places — from a Brooklyn public school chess team to a small Appalachian town listening for signals from the stars. Her award-winning films have been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her debut, Brooklyn Castle (2013), was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and earned an Emmy nomination for its PBS POV broadcast. Her latest feature, Small Town Universe (2024), airs on PBS’s Reel South and has screened nationwide, winning the Global Health Competition Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival. A lifelong believer in the power of small moments, Katie gravitates toward intimate stories that grow into something much larger — about community, equity, and what connects us. She brings that same human touch to her branded work with Courageous Studios, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, where her film What We Leave Behind won the Digiday Best Brand Series Award. Next up, her upcoming documentary Queen’s Castle follows young women breaking barriers in the male-dominated world of competitive chess — building on her curiosity about how ambition, identity, and belonging take shape in unexpected places.