Katie Roy is the Executive Director of the SPEND Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to securing and modernizing the national education finance data pipeline. She also serves as senior advisor and of counsel at Education Resource Strategies (ERS), where she was previously Partner and General Counsel. Her background includes serving as the interim Chief Financial Officer for Hartford Public Schools and founding the School + State Finance Project, a nonpartisan policy organization recognized for its independent analysis and creative, thoughtful policy solutions to education funding and state finance challenges. An attorney by training, she also founded Nonprofits Counsel, LLC to provide legal and strategic guidance to mission-driven organizations.
