Katelyn Sims

Katelyn Sims serves as the Operations and Social Media Assistant at Charlotte Lozier Institute, where she works to optimize the organization’s functional systems, data pipelines, and public-facing content for research initiatives.

Prior to joining CLI, Katelyn served as a research intern for the Religious Freedom Institute and a Washington Fellow with The Fund for American Studies. At RFI, she contributed to the drafting of a religious liberty landscape report surveying the Middle East in addition to refining high school curriculum that studies religious freedom as a core tenet of the American Founding. As a TFAS Washington Fellow, Katelyn engaged with the core concepts of free enterprise and individual liberty through academic courses at George Mason University, as well as professional excursions across D.C.

Katelyn holds a B.A. in Civic Leadership, Public Policy and Global Studies from Howard Payne University where she earned cum laude distinction. During her senior year, she completed an Honors thesis on the codification of the Doctrine of Consular Non-Reviewability in U.S. immigration law.