Her numerous appearances on national television include The Kelly Clarkson Show, Live with Kelly & Ryan, The Today Show, The Real, Hallmark Channel, The Daily Buzz, Cooking Channel and as a guest judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America. She has appeared as a chef contestant on Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Supermarket Stakeout, Battle of the Decades and most recently on Chopped.

As part of her emphasis on healthy food, Katie served as the Culinary Ambassador to City of Hope and its “super foods” initiative. She took the message of the cancer-fighting potential of certain foods directly to the White House under the Obama administration at the annual Easter Egg Roll where she demonstrated how to quickly and easily incorporate “super foods” into daily life.

In January 2021, Katie was named Culinary Ambassador to the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF). In this role, Katie helps raise awareness around NPCF’s mission to find less toxic and more targeted treatments for pediatric patients along with educating the American public about the role of healthy ingredients and cooking in potentially preventing and eradicating cancer. She appears monthly on Bloom TV on behalf of NPCF cooking alongside a pediatric cancer warrior demonstrating healthy recipes with cancer-fighting ingredients.

Katie performed her one woman show entitled “Holy Shitake: A Wok Star is Born” at AAPI Theater Mu’s New Eyes Festival in her hometown of Minneapolis in May 2023 - an excerpt from her show was published as an op-ed article in USA Today in May 2022. She made her sold outLA debut at Whitefire Theater’s Solo Fest in January 2024.

Based in Los Angeles, Katie divides her time running her businesses: Wok Star Catering and Fortune Cookie Divas, posting recipes to her blog, rehearsing as lead singer in her and her hubby Matthew’s band “Never Too Late” and caring for her 15 year-old twins, Dylan and Becca.

In addition to her Culinary Ambassador role for NPCF, she is passionate about supporting numerous philanthropic causes which include serving as co-chair of Mayor Karen Bass’ AAPI LA Task Force, serving on the board of #TEACHAAPI and serving as the SW Regional Ambassador to Women’s Entrepreneurship Day. In May 2023, Katie received a Certificate of Recognition from Mayor Karen Bass’ Office and a Congressional Certificate of Recognition from Congresswoman Sidney Kamlager’s Office for her work on behalf of the AAPI Los Angeles community. That same month, she received the Empowerment Leader Award from the Business Relationship Alliance Network.