Katie earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Food Science and a certificate in business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an undergraduate, Katie performed research in food bacteriology. She evaluated the capabilities of bacteria contamination testing methodologies. The results of her research were published in the Journal of Food Protection and the Journal of Food Safety.
Katie was awarded her J.D. degree and a certificate in intellectual property law from Chicago-Kent College of Law. There, she was an associate editor for the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property. She was involved as well with the Intellectual Property Law Society, the Chicago Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Institute of Food Technologists.
During her time at Chicago-Kent, Katie was a law clerk at PepsiCo, Inc., assisting in-house counsel on intellectual property-related matters. Additionally, she participated in the Chicago-Kent IP-Patent Clinic and received a grant from the Department of Energy for her research on the effects of incidence and impacts of nanotechnology patents.
She is registered to practice before the USPTO.
