Katherine B. McGuire, MS

Katherine B. McGuire is APA’s chief advocacy officer, responsible for implementing a unified, strategic vision for the association’s government relations efforts and coordinating APA’s broader advocacy initiatives in nongovernmental sectors. In this role, McGuire is focused on ensuring that APA speaks with one voice before Congress, federal agencies and the White House. She is also responsible for growing psychology’s political action committee, Psychology PAC.

With more than 25 years of senior-level policy experience in Congress, the executive branch and the private sector, McGuire was most recently assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor. In that post, she focused on appropriations, budget priorities and regulatory matters. She has also been actively engaged in federal policy solutions to address the opioid epidemic since initiating the first congressional public health model opioid roundtable in the Chicago region in 2015.

McGuire’s ability to work with members of both parties has been widely recognized.