Katrina Heimark (PhD, University of Minnesota) is a non-partisan fiscal analyst at the Minnesota House of Representatives. Her responsibilities include assisting the Housing Policy and Finance and Tax committees, where she monitors the fiscal impact of legislative proposals and enacted laws, reviews executive and legislative spending requests, tracks legislative budget decision, and serves as a resource for elected members and their staff.

Prior to her work in the Minnesota Legislature, Heimark taught courses in political science at the Humphrey School, the Universities of Wisconsin Eau Claire and River Falls, Century College, and the Universidad de Lima, in Peru. As a political scientist, she specializes in comparative politics and political psychology, with a regional focus on Latin America. Her research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and has been used to design protocols and training modules for the Peruvian National Police.

Heimark's research has sought to understand the relationship between citizens and the state, with a specific focus on citizen-initiated police contact in areas of widespread legal cynicism. Her research is inherently interdisciplinary, bringing perspectives from the fields of sociology, criminology, and psychology to bear on our understanding of political processes. By attempting to understand individual-initiated contact with the state in the pursuit of justice, her research seeks to gain insights as to how we can construct fairer, more responsive, and inclusive institutions.