Kim Knackstedt is the director of The Century Foundation’s Disability Economic Justice Collaborative. She previously has served in disability policy positions in Congress and the White House. She brings experience as a classroom teacher of students with disabilities and as a person with chronic illness to her policy perspectives. In 2016, Kim was the Kennedy Public Policy Fellow, serving on the HELP Committee. She also served as the disability policy advisor for Chairman Bobby Scott on the Committee on Education and Labor in the House of Representatives, and was the senior disability policy advisor for Senator Patty Murray on the HELP Committee in the Senate.  In January 2021, Kim was appointed as the first director of disability policy for the Domestic Policy Council for the Biden Administration. Kim received her PhD from the University of Kansas.