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Katherine Bryant, MEd (she/her/hers)

National Sr. Advocacy Consultant
American Heart Association
Madison, MS, United States

Katherine Bryant graduated from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in educational counseling. She was a school counselor for 5 years before joining The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi as the director of the high school tobacco program, the state youth advocacy board, and wrote the state high school tobacco education curriculum. After leaving The Partnership, she joined the American Heart Association as the state government relations director. Since joining the AHA, Katherine has worked on a broad spectrum of issues through public policy– including tobacco control, acute systems of care, physical activity, healthy food financing and emergency cardiovascular care. While serving as the Senior Director of Government Relations and Advocacy, she covered Mississippi, managed various states and grants in the southeast. Since 2019, she has had the roll of National Sr. Advocacy Consultant with the AHA where she provides consultation and policy guidance to community, state, and federal advocacy staff on public policy issues having to do with the Chain of Survival and Quality Acute Systems of Care.

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