Katie Combs Prichard is a public information assistant with Placer County’s Health and Human Services Department, where she manages communications efforts for six integrated divisions on everything ranging from mental health to animal adoptions to COVID-19 response. Prior to county government, she worked in communications for a local Sacramento-area school district after leaving the news industry, where she had produced multimedia content for several years at outlets including The Stockton Record, ABC7 (New York) and WNET (New York). She lives in Placer with her husband and two daughters.