Katie Combs Prichard is the communications manager with Placer County’s Health and Human Services Department, where she leads public relations efforts for six integrated divisions on everything ranging from mental health to animal adoptions to infectious disease. 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.