Katie Loos

Across all of her work, Katie Loos supports young people to participate in and reimagine policymaking processes affecting their schools and communities. She currently leads the DemocracyReady NY Coalition’s youth engagement program, supporting young people to drive research and advocacy efforts to transform their schools and communities. Katie is also a Teaching Artist Fellow with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), facilitating high schoolers in collaborative research and art-making to investigate how NYC works. Before this, Katie worked at education news publications and the Global Campaign for Education-US (GCE-US). She began her time at GCE-US in 2017 as an intern, continued as a research fellow throughout her undergraduate career, and returned in 2023 as a senior fellow. Katie is especially interested in civically engaged arts education, community schools, and student voice. In 2020, she co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, Girlz by Design, where she teaches design thinking and digital arts workshops with high schoolers. Katie received a B.A. in Human Services & Social Justice from George Washington University and an M.A. in Education Policy and Social Analysis from Columbia University’s Teachers College.