Event

SNF Paideia Program and Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2024 present Race and Refugees with Katherine Leahy, Special Assistant to the Population, Refugees, and Migration Assistant Secretary.

Katherine Leahy,  Special Assistant to the PRM Assistant Secretary.

Katherine “Kate” Leahy serves as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration. She previously served as Counterterrorism Unit Chief at U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Economic Officer at U.S. Embassy Zagreb, United Kingdom Desk Officer, Political Officer at U.S. Embassy Algiers, and Consular Officer at U.S. Consulate General Rio de Janeiro. She will depart the PRM Front Office in May 2023 to join the Operations Center as a Senior Watch Officer. Before joining the State Department in 2009, Kate worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and at a large international law firm. A proud native of New Jersey, Kate is an alumna of Loyola University Maryland and the University of Notre Dame Law School. She speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Croatian, and is admitted to practice law in New York.

Hosted by Fariha Khan, ASAM Co-Director and Fernando Chang-Muy, Thomas O'Boyle Lecturer in Law in the course "American Race: A Philadelphia Story" (SNF Paideia Program.)

This event will be open for Penn students only. Register and join by Zoom here!