Katie Packer Beeson is Founding Partner at Burning Glass Consulting, a first of its kind, all-female consulting firm, which does public relations, political consulting and issue management with an emphasis on messaging to women.

Katie has worked on political campaigns across the country since 1990 and has managed campaigns at every level from state legislature and Governor to U.S. Senate and Presidential. In 2012, she was the Deputy Campaign Manager of Governor Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign.

Katie’s experience also includes working in the Michigan State Senate and in the administration of Michigan Governor John Engler as Chief of Staff to the Lt. Governor. She served in the administration of President George W. Bush as Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Energy Spence Abraham. She also worked on Capitol Hill as an aide to then U.S. Senator Spence Abraham (R-MI).

In 2008 Katie started the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) an organization dedicated to grassroots education and mobilization on workplace fairness issues. WFI succeeded in mobilizing opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (card check). WFI continues to be a leading voice in opposing Big Labor’s anti-business agenda in workplace matters.

Katie was an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School for Political Management, located in Washington, DC and was a 2017 Spring Fellow at the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service.

Prior to stepping away from partisan politics, Katie spent several years as an MSNBC political commentator and prior to that could frequently be seen and heard offering political commentary on National Public Radio, CNN and Fox News. In addition, she also published a weekly column for U.S. News and World Report from 2014-2017.

Katie is a Detroit, Michigan native and graduated from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. She and her husband, Rich, divide their time between Grand Lake, Colorado and Key West, Florida.