Biography
Catrina is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Security Studies cluster focusing on irregular warfare, counterterrorism, and quantitative methods. She is also an associate fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and a member of the editorial board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative. She was the 2021 counterterrorism fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Catrina has previously conducted research at the Migration Policy Institute, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Middle East and North Africa Office, and the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins. She also served for two years in AmeriCorps as a refugee resettlement caseworker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Catrina holds a B.A. with honors in history, with a concentration in military history, from the University of Chicago and an M.A. with honors in strategic studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.