Katey is an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, where she leads the Cooper Biology Education Research Lab and directs the Mental Health Division of the Research for Inclusive STEM Education (RISE) Center. Trained as a discipline-based education researcher, she applies theories of clinical psychology and employs both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to study biology undergraduate and graduate education. Primarily, she investigates the relationship between student mental health and cognitive and affective learning. Her research has been highlighted in Science as well as news outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and BBC News.