KATY HANSEN
DIRECTOR, RURAL & SMALL CITIES PROGRAM‍

Katy is committed to improving local public services. Most recently, she worked to advance equity in federal assistance for water infrastructure as a Senior Advisor at the EPA and a Deputy Director at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center.

Previously, Katy worked on increasing access to services with the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice in rural Alabama, the Association for Water and Rural Development in South Africa, and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in the Middle East. She holds a BS in Engineering from Montana State University, an MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a PhD in Environmental Policy from Duke University.

Katy currently leads the Rural and Small Cities Program at the Public Finance Initiative.