Katherine Kirk

Katherine graduated from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs with a Master of International Affairs and a Certificate of the Harriman Institute in 2019 and now works as a defense analyst at Avascent. She specializes in U.S. national security policy, cybersecurity, and U.S.-Russia and Russia-NATO relations. Katherine’s most recent research includes her Harriman Certificate paper on Russia-NATO conflict in the Baltics and a report for the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center studying Russian disinformation about Syria on Twitter targeting American audiences.