Katharine Gorka
 Katharine Gorka    | |
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| Born | Katharine Cornell |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Hotchkiss School, London School of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Spouse | Sebastian Gorka |
Katharine Gorka is a U.S. think-tanker with close ties to the intelligence industry.
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Connections
A leaked document from the first II leak stated that "we also have a contact to Katharine Gorka - Senior Advisor - US Department of Homeland Security". This would appear to be Sebastian Gorka, the first meeting listed on Chris Donnelly's Washington DC Schedule.
Education
Gorka was born in Boston and grew up in various places on the East Coast, from Franconia, New Hampshire, to Asheville, North Carolina. She got her B.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Career
She worked as a Development Specialist for the Asia Society Sep 1987 - Mar 1990
She lived in Budapest, Hungary for twelve years, where she worked on aspects of the post-communist transition, including projects to create compliant NGOs ('regenerate civil society') . [1]
She was a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute Mar 1992 - May 1995; Director Central and Eastern Europe, National Forum Foundation May 1995 - Dec 1996; and Director at the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS) Jan 2003 - Jun 2008
From 2009 to 2014, she was Executive Director of the Westminster Institute, which conducted research and education on threats posed by extremist ideologies. As President of the Threat Knowledge Group from 2014 to 2017, Gorka provided expertise and training on irregular warfare and terrorism to the FBI, US Army Special Forces, Marine Corps, and law enforcement.
In 2016, Gorka joined the Trump Transition Team and then served as a senior advisor in the Office of Policy at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, where she focused on strategies for "prevention of terrorism and targeted violence and combatting use of the internet for terrorism and human trafficking".
From June to August 2019, she served as the press secretary for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
In January 2020 she started working for The Heritage Foundation.
