Katie Jimenez-Gray is the Chief of Staff to the CEO. She joined Civic News Company (then Chalkbeat) in 2019 as the Executive Assistant to the CEO and has since held a variety of roles, focusing on executive leadership support, organizational operations, Board of Directors governance, and communications.

Katie has worked as an Educator at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, as well as in public school classrooms in Ohio and Stockholm. Before coming to Civic News Company, she worked at EAB, an education consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

Katie graduated from Kenyon College, where she studied English and psychology. She lives in Oakland, California. Outside of work, Katie loves reading, hiking in the Northern California redwoods, and attempting ambitious baking projects.