Katie Ferrier

Advisory Board Member

With decades of experience spanning Capitol Hill, national nonprofit leadership, and executive strategy, Katie brings a rare fluency to the full policy ecosystem. Her career in both chambers of the U.S. Congress gave her an early command of how federal power actually moves — who holds it, how it shifts, and where business interests must be inserted into the legislative current before decisions calcify.

In Texas, where the policy environment is shaped as much by relationship architecture as legislation, Katie operates in the tier where things actually get done. She has spent her career building cross-sector coalitions that are durable enough to outlast election cycles, connecting corporate interests to public systems and translating complex policy priorities into language that moves both CEOs and school board members. Her current role on the Advisory Board of Early Matters San Antonio reflects a long-game approach: workforce pipelines don't begin at age 18, and Katie has been making that case for years.

Locally, Katie is the SVP of Public Policy and leads the Greater Chamber's advocacy function with the weight of an organization that doesn't just respond to policy — it makes it. Under her direction, the Chamber advances a unified business agenda on economic growth, workforce, education, and quality of life across a region that is no longer just a military and healthcare town, but one of the fastest-growing metropolitan economies in the United States.

Katie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Texas Tech University and a Master of Arts in Policy Studies from Johns Hopkins University — the latter a signal of how seriously she takes the intellectual infrastructure of the work, not just the relational muscle. Her consulting background, spanning nonprofit organizations and public officials, further sharpened her ability to move between sectors with credibility.