Katelyn Sims is a student at Howard Payne University, studying public policy in the Guy D. Newman Honors Academy with a secondary major in global studies. During her time there, Katelyn serves as captain of the Student Speaker Bureau’s speech and debate team where she has been a prominent member since 2022. She also works as a writing tutor in HPU’s Center for Student Success. Katelyn has been a contributor to Brownwood News since 2023, serving as a news writer and marketing coordinator. Coupled with her love for writing, Katelyn is vastly attentive to politics and current events, both domestic and abroad. She hopes to apply this passion toward a future career in international journalism or foreign affairs.

Her column The Truth Will Set You Free is geared towards all age groups, backgrounds and professions. Katelyn aspires to inform readers of major legislative, political and humanitarian activity in laymen terms, in order to supply the general public with an unbiased analysis that allows them to cultivate opinions by their own free will. This column will not engage in ideological favoritism or promote party identification to any degree.