Kate is a candidate for a Masters in Public Policy as a Taubman Fellow in State and Local Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School. She is also pursuing an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In addition to her studies in statistical and economic policy and business analysis, she is developing a global “connectivity index” that will describe how connected the world’s nations are (along a spectrum of hyper-connected to disconnected) by measuring mobile phone, internet, and tablet market indicators. In 2010, she led a team of State Department and NGO professionals to develop the concept of mobile justice, working under Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Senior Advisor for Innovation and Technology. When implemented, this project will use mobile and satellite technologies to expand access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo – linking them to courts, hospitals and doctors, and pro bono legal services. Kate has also worked on problem-solving justice projects with the Center for Court Innovation. She is a contributing writer to the Huffington Post and the Change.org Criminal Justice blog.

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