Katherine Gallagher Robbins was CLASP’s Child Care and Early Education director. In this role she worked to increase access to high-quality child care and early education for families and children who have low incomes, with a focus on policies that support child development and the needs of working parents with low incomes.

Prior to joining CLASP, Katherine was the senior director of poverty policy at the Center for American Progress. In that role, she worked to reduce economic insecurity and cut poverty with a special focus on women, people of color, and people with disabilities. She also previously served as the director of research and policy analysis for the National Women’s Law Center.

Katherine earned her undergraduate degree in Government at The College of William and Mary and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan. In 2009 she was a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science. Prior to graduate school, Katherine was a campus organizer for the California Public Interest Research Group at the University of California, San Diego.