Kate is a freelance policy analyst and political advisor in mass atrocity prevention. In 2014 she co-founded Protection Approaches, an NGO working to strengthen responses to identity-based mass violence worldwide.

Kate has over seven years of academic and professional experience in the field of atrocity prevnetion. She has worked on projects addressing the crises in Sudan, mechanisms of international justice, prosecuting war crimes suspects in the UK, and the future of R2P. Kate works in and out of Westminster, providing briefings and other research on issues relating to identity-based mass violence and atrocity prevention.

Kate has PhD from the University of East Anglia. Her research examines devolved structures of violence in modern, identity-based conflicts. She teaches undergrad classes on an ad-hoc basis, contributing to modules on the Holocaust, Human Rights, and the history of Yugoslavia. Past papers, lectures and articles have looked at gender and conflict, sexual violence, British responses to genocide, and the development of international justice.