Kathleen is a Graduate Fellow in Princeton University’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI). During her undergraduate career at Princeton University, she was elected to the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society in 2021, selected as a Tau Beta Pi National Scholar in 2022, and as a recipient for Princeton University's Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence in 2019. Kathleen has worked as a research assistant for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, where she reviewed and fact-checked the manuscript of the “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” before it was published in 2019. In 2022, she interned at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division as a legal research intern in the Environmental Enforcement Section. She has also volunteered with the Citizens’ Climate Lobby where she organized for bipartisan carbon pricing legislation and conducted research with Princeton University’s Urban Nexus Lab, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, through which she co-authored a paper on modeling air pollution in the Western U.S. In summer of 2024, Kathleen worked as a SINSI Visiting Scholar at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on the Industrial Innovation Team.