Katie is the communication specialist at the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication working primarily on website design and media outreach. She is an alumni of George Mason University with a B.S. in conservation biology and a focus on communicating science to inspire meaningful change. Katie is also an alumni of the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, VA where she worked with exotic endangered ungulates. She has conducted wet bulb temperature research to be used as a proxy to assess climate change hyperthermia risk in the Virgin Islands, as well as assisted on several ecological research surveys. Katie’s communication work has been featured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and competed in national storytelling competitions. Hailing from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, she hopes to one day leverage her skills to protect the unique environments and improve quality of life in small island communities.