Katie Feiler, LSW

Interim Executive Director

Katie Feiler is a macro social worker with her MSW who demonstrates a strong passion for program evaluation, program development, legislative advocacy, and social policy. She has over 6 years of experience supporting individuals in recovery from substance use disorders and has been actively involved in the anti-human trafficking movement.

Katie possesses a lived experience as a survivor, with a story that highlights the intersectionality of sex trafficking, the criminal justice system, and substance use disorders. She strives to use both her lived experience and education to inform survivor services and anti-human trafficking legislation. She has worked with the Pennsylvania Chapter of Children Advocacy Centers to inform identification methods of adolescent victims of trafficking, has sat on numerous panels to discuss human trafficking legislation, engaged in research efforts to inform survivor services, and has spoken at several community events.

She envisions combatting human trafficking on a systemic level. She aims to use her evaluation skills to contribute to data collection on human trafficking and using this information to inform legislation, policies, and services that impact victims.