Katherine Lewis graduated from the University of Delaware summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics. While at UD, Katy was active in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and studied abroad in Martinique, England, Australia, and Italy. After college, Katy spent two years as a fellow and senior researcher at the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to public-service journalism, where she researched and wrote about campaign finance and international corruption issues.

Katy graduated with high honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law. While in law school, she served as the president of the Immigrants Outreach Project and the Carolina Law chapter of the ACLU, did research for a book written by Professor Hiroshi Motomura about the history of immigration law, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, and participated in the Civil Law Clinic, representing non-citizens and domestic violence victims. Katy also explored her interest in international law issues, serving as the managing editor of the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation and volunteering for a summer at the Women’s Legal Centre, a South African non-profit organization engaged in women’s rights impact litigation and advocacy. Katy also interned at the public defender’s office in Orange County, North Carolina.

After graduating from law school, Katy worked as a Judicial Law Clerk/Attorney Advisor with the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, at the Los Angeles Immigration Court, as part if the Attorney General’s Honors Program.