Prior to joining the OSU faculty, Kathryn was a research assistant at the Institute for Research on Poverty and was selected as a doctoral fellow with the Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (Children’s Bureau, ACF, USDHHS) as well as the Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Wellbeing (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation). She has a BA in Social Welfare and Political Science (’05), MPA (’06), MSW (’09), and PhD (’13) from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.