As the Response Coordination Lead for NASA’s Disasters Response Coordination System (DRCS), Katie works with the DRCS team, subject matter experts across the Agency, and stakeholders in the emergency management community to develop earth-observation data products that fill information gaps during disasters. Before coming to NASA, Katie held a research position with the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Systems group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, focusing on applications of remote sensing in disaster response and recovery. Leveraging skills in systems analysis and socio-technical systems engineering, she also supported programs related to food aid delivery, supply chain management, conflict prevention, and other humanitarian missions. Katie previously worked at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), where she helped identify new uses of aerial imagery in emergency management and served as a crowdsourcing unit leader in the National Response Coordination Center.