Katie launched her dance training in Chicago studying multiple forms and began cultivating her love for tap as a founding member of Footprints Tap Ensemble. She minored in dance at NASD accredited Hope College where she performed with InSync Dance Theatre, Michigan's only professional tap and jazz company.

Katie's tap performance credits include Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Nutcracker on Broadway, Dance Chicago, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Chicago Tap Theatre's Liason, City Hall Presents, and Cross-Rhythms, at which she performed a restaging of Manhattan Tap's seminal 1986 piece "Scrapple from the Apple" choreographed by founder Heather Cornell. Her choreography is performed regularly by The Lady Hoofers, and been featured in several high school productions and Footprints Tap Ensemble's annual Tap Jam. Her piece Unchain My Heart was selected for performance at the DanceUSA Conference in 2013.

Katie has taken class with and performed alongside many tap greats including Jimmy Slyde, Teddy Levy, Dianne Walker, Heather Cornell, Roxane Butterfly, Sam Weber, Mike Minery, Jimmy Tate, Omar Edwards, Dormeisha Sumbry-Edwards, Ayodele Casel, Karen Callaway Williams, Andrew Nemr, and Caleb Teicher. Her tap teachers and mentors include Sarah Cook Flynn, Rosanne Mork, and Mark Yonally.

She is currently Managing Director of The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble, Philadelphia's premier all-women tap company, for which she also performs and choreographs.