Katie Lu grew up playing soccer in Massachusetts and continued through her college club team at American University where she earned a B.A in both Public Health and Sociology. During undergrad, she worked for a local nonprofit as a health and nutrition educator for their afterschool and summer leadership program. Her experiences working in the nonprofit and government sectors inspired Katie Lu to pursue a career in education and public health, which led her to DC SCORES.

In her current position, Katie Lu oversees monitoring and evaluation of program data through the implementation of data collection, analysis and reporting.