Katie Corrigan

Katie Corrigan is the Policy Director for Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. She is responsible for developing the Initiative’s public policy portfolio and strategy. Corrigan has almost fifteen years of experience working on federal legislation and public policy campaigns. Through early 2011, Corrigan served as Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, an initiative at Georgetown Law that helped set the stage for a national dialogue on how to make workplace flexibility a standard in the American workplace. Before directing Workplace Flexibility 2010, she was Visiting Professor of Law and Assistant Director of Georgetown’s Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic where she represented Catholic Charities USA among other non-profit clients. She was legal counsel on disability policy for Senator Tom Harkin on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, serving as the lead Senate staffer on a range of disability legislation. And, she worked as a legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she defended individual privacy rights and led coalition efforts that included organizations from across the political spectrum. Corrigan began her legal career as a teaching fellow and legislative lawyer in Georgetown Law’s Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown Law.