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Katie Escudero is the Director of Center Operations for the Housing Futures Center. In this role, she leads the Center’s operations and works closely with the Director to advance research, education, and engagement across Washington state.

Katie brings nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of housing, policy, and strategy. Before joining the Center, she worked at two Puget Sound housing authorities, King County Housing Authority and Tacoma Housing Authority, where she led research and evaluation projects that informed major policy changes, directed complex, multidisciplinary initiatives, and built partnerships spanning the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She began her career in housing at the Downtown Women’s Center, a nonprofit affordable housing provider in Los Angeles’s Skid Row.

Katie holds bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Ethnic Studies from Colorado State University and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.

The Housing Futures Center (HFC) at the University of Washington advances solutions to Washington’s most pressing housing challenges through research, education, and community partnerships. HFC builds capacity and supports informed decision-making to ensure that every Washingtonian has access to affordable and stable housing.

Housing in Washington is increasingly out of reach for many families. Over the next two decades, the state will need more than 1.1 million new housing units, two-thirds of which must be affordable to households earning less than 80% of the area median income. HFC works to meet this need by connecting knowledge, policy, and practice across disciplines and communities.