Katie Annemarie Keil

Katherine (Katie) Keil is a master's student at Columbia University studying Political Science, with a concentration in American Politics. She plans to pursue a PhD in Political Science beginning in Fall 2027, where she hopes to explore the relationship between personality dynamics and political behavior.

She earned her B.A. in Political Science and Psychology from Northwestern in 2026, earning Interdisciplinary Honors in both fields.  At Northwestern, her senior honors thesis examined the role of elite cues and endorsements of political violence in shaping individual attitudes, drawing on industrial-organizational psychology and social network theory to model top-down pathways of political influence.