Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn is the senior director of the Georgia Policy Labs, which serves to advance evidence-based solutions that efficiently and effectively address the needs of children, students, and families. Previously, she directed Advancement Project’s Opportunity to Learn program, supporting campaigns across the country in the fight for quality education and an end to the school-to-prison pipeline. Prior to Advancement Project, she spent over a decade working towards education justice in the South. Katherine served as the regional policy analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where she led the SPLC’s children’s rights policy work; as a general attorney at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, enforcing federal civil rights laws in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee schools; and as a program director at the Southern Education Foundation, where her work focused on research and advocacy to ensure equity in public education in the South.

Katherine is past co-chair of the American Constitution Society’s Georgia Lawyer Chapter and the Georgia chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the 2018 LEAD Atlanta class. She was named to the Daily Report’s 2020 class of Georgia lawyers “On the Rise.” She attended North Carolina K–12 public schools and received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina and her B.S. from Elon University.