Sport: Softball

Katie is a Public Health concentrator in the 5th year AB/MPH combined program and a member of the Brown Softball team. Her research interests include food insecurity, nutrition, and population health. Katie’s work with the Swearer Center began in 2017 when she received the Royce Fellowship for Sport & Society. Her project focused on food insecurity among collegiate athletes and whether current NCAA policy sufficiently addresses this issue. Katie is also a member of the Swearer Center’s Student Advisory Committee and works with the Academic and Diversity and Inclusion subgroups. Within her role as a Global Sport Graduate Fellow, Katie will work with Providence’s Hope High School to reduce food insecurity among their student athletes and improve their current health education program.

In addition to her work within Swearer, Katie is an Evaluation Coordinator for the Rhode Island Public Health Institute’s Food on the Move program where she assists with grant writing, data analysis, and survey development. Katie also assisted in the creation of the Brown Athletic Department’s Diversity & Inclusion Plan, and was named Ivy League female representative for the 2017 NCAA Leadership Conference, and has worked extensively with the Rhode Island Public Health Association’s Advocacy Committee.