Katie has been dancing since she was four years old.  She focused on ballet in her youth, and danced at Von Heidecke Dance Center.  After a break during high school, she returned to dance in college.  At University of Illinois, she took classes in ballet, modern and jazz.  While attending graduate school at Penn State for history, she was able to continue her study of dance and assistant teach at a local ballet school in State College.  After graduate school, Katie became a middle school science teacher and continued to take classes at Boston Ballet School, until she started having her children.  Now that her four kids are older, she has returned to taking dance classes, even starting tap when her oldest son did.  She has loved introducing dance to all of her children, and is now very excited to share her love of dance with students at Expression Dance Studio.