Katherine (Kat) is a qualified lawyer and researcher with over 15 years of experience. During the early years of her career, Kat worked as a Gender, Youth, and Rights Officer at IPPF, where she had opportunities to grow as a technical specialist and advocate whilst cultivating a personal and professional passion for sexual and reproductive justice (SRJ). Kat has been a consultant since 2014 and was a founding member of The Torchlight Collective.

During her freelance years, Kat has worked with organisations such as WHO, Rutgers, Women's Fund Asia, UNESCO, and AJWS on policy and legal analyses, evaluation, research, strategy development, academic writing, and advocacy. She thrives at the 'frontiers' of SRJ, where connections are needed between research and programming, advocacy, and movement strategy. Kat loves collaborative processes that involve thinking through the complex intersections of gender, rights, youth, sexuality, and the law.

Kat attended Boston University, where she graduated with a BA in Spanish after having explored world religions and political science along the way. In 2006, she graduated with an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and was called to the Bar in 2012. She's currently pursuing a part-time PhD at Leiden University focused on how the law constructs and regulates adolescent sexuality and is based in Germany, where she lives with her partner and two sons.