Katie Smith is a senior media relations manager at the Urban Institute. She joined Urban after five years in communications at the Kaiser Family Foundation, where she worked with health care policy researchers on messaging and media. Before joining Kaiser, Smith reported on health care for Politico and worked in the membership program at the Museum of Modern Art. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American studies from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.