Katie is a Child Life Specialist II and a Noonday Collection Senior Manager, supporting patients and families in the hospital and teammates and artisan partners through Noonday. Katie is an enneagram 1w2, originally from Mobile, Al, currently living in Nashville, TN with her husband Aaron. Katie received a degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a concentration in Child Life and a minor in Business from The University of Alabama in 2011. Katie has been a child life specialist for 11 years and is passionate about children understanding the complexities of the hospital, having choices about their care, and using play as an essential tool for teaching coping skills. Katie is an experiential traveler, meticulously researching countries and cities, finding local favorites and planning unplanned times to seek out hidden gems, most recently returning from Peru for the second time.