Katie Wells

Katie J. Wells is a Senior Fellow at Groundwork Collaborative.

A tech and labor policy expert, she writes about how tech affects the way we live in cities, and especially how we govern them. Katie is a co-author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City (Princeton University Press, 2023), which The Los Angeles Times called “fantastic,” The American Prospect  labeled as “careful and powerful,” and Publishers Weekly described as an “accessible account [that] will be of interest to urban policymakers and activists.”

Previously, as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, Katie managed several research projects about the gig economy. She has published findings from this work in academic journals as well as The New York Review of Books.

Katie has discussed the real-time impacts of her research in testimonies before the U.S. Congress, the D.C. Council, and 100+ media stories for The Washington Post, NPR, and ABC National News, among others.

Katie holds a B.A. from the Ohio State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.