Katie Spann

Katie Spann, MBA, currently serves as an Entrepreneur at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation since December 2022. Additionally, Katie is a CoFounder, COO, and Senior Director of Operations at the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) since May 2020 and has held the position of Director of Operations at the Center for University Excellence at American University since the same month, where the center facilitates dialogue on critical higher education issues. Prior to these roles, Katie was the Operations Manager at Linder Global Events from September 2017 to March 2020.