Katherine is a trainee at the Institute for Minority Rights at Eurac Research and is currently a second year student in the MA Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context, at the University of Groningen and the University of Udine. She is specialising in human rights and migration management within the European Union; her current interest lies in the role that civil society actors play within this framework at a local and supranational level. In her spare time she likes to practice landscape photography with her camera and enjoys reading English literature classics.