Katrina Hauprich earned her law degree with high honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law where she was a comments editor of the North Carolina Law Review. Katrina earned her master's degree in higher education from the University of Maryland and her bachelor's degree in public policy and Hispanic linguistics, with a minor in philosophy, politics and economics, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Prior to law school, Katrina worked in admissions, alumni relations, fundraising and student affairs at multiple public and private institutions of higher education.