Katherine Sydor, Senior Policy Advisor

Katherine Sydor is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education. Katherine formerly worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Policy Advisor in the Office of Consumer Policy. Katherine became a Presidential Management Fellow after completing her Master’s Degree in Public Affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where she focused on tax and social policy. Prior to graduate school, she worked in Congress for four years in the office of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and the office of Representative David Obey (D-WI). Katherine is from Wisconsin and earned her Bachelors of Arts in History and Women’s Studies at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities where she also worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer in a summer youth literacy program immediately after college.