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KATHERINE BATHGATE, CEO & CO-FOUNDER

Katherine Kellett Bathgate is the CEO & Co-Founder of SchoolForward, a firm focused on advancing education reform throughout the United States. She has helped pass dozens of school choice and education reform bills, led extensive message research and polling projects on education topics, and helped thousands of educators exercise their First Amendment rights with respect to union membership. She also led media relations for Supreme Court cases Janus v. AFSCME and Friedrichs v. CTA. Ms. Bathgate previously led the communications and marketing team at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and from 2011-2013, she was the Deputy Press Secretary for the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where her work won numerous awards. Ms. Bathgate is a frequent speaker having taught and presented on education policy and issue campaigns before audiences such as American Enterprise Institute, EdChoice, State Policy Network, Club for Growth Foundation, ExcelinEd, and as an instructor with the Education Reformers Academy. Ms. Bathgate attended Claremont McKenna College and resides in Park City, Utah with her husband and four children. She is also the Board Chair at Telos Classical Academy, a microschool that started in her family's barn in 2021.