Katie is a Chadian-American student pursuing an International Development concentration at MSFS. She is the inaugural recipient of the MSFS Futures Scholarship, a student representative on the MSFS DEI Committee, and a co-chair of the graduate student group Decolonizing International Affairs. Katie is focusing her studies on democracy and governance in conflict-affected states in West Africa and the Sahel.

During her time at MSFS, she has held internships in the programme support unit at the International Organization for Migration in Accra, Ghana, and in the editorial department at Foreign Policy magazine.

Prior to beginning her studies at Georgetown, Katie was deputy head of fact-checking and a fact-checker at The New Yorker. Between 2017 and 2018, she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where she taught at a secondary school, volunteered in the U.S. Embassy’s information section, and created a media literacy course for adult learners. After completing her studies in journalism and French at Northwestern University in 2015, she covered art, science, and history as a staff reporter at Smithsonian magazine. Her writing has recently appeared in Texas Monthly, Air Mail, and on newyorker.com.

"I chose MSFS because I wanted to study in a program through which I could develop practical technical skills, explore political theory, and have access to some of the most influential thinkers and institutions in the global arena."