Katie Giles is a Managing Partner at Partners in Democracy (PiD), a non-profit organization working to drive democracy renovation nationally by working at the state level, state-by-state. In this role, Katie serves as Executive Director of the Civics and History Inquiry Partnership. The K-12 team aims to prepare teachers to teach in support of a healthy constitutional democracy at scale by supporting implementation of high-quality curricula and offering aligned professional learning. Katie began a leadership role with the Democratic Knowledge Project in 2019 at Harvard University. Prior to her civic education work, Katie worked for two decades in public health on school-based interventions and evaluations in districts throughout Massachusetts and North Carolina and on decision-making related to school-based health initiatives in states, cities, and counties across the country in partnership with health and education agencies. She managed the implementation and evaluation of school, out-of-school time, and community-based interventions at the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Katie also oversaw a national initiative studying the health and cost impact of health policy interventions in school, early care, government, and community settings. Katie has a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree in American Studies and Public Policy Analysis from Pomona College.