Katherine Pingeton ’22

I’m working on my Honors Thesis, which concerns the sexual violence migrant girls and women face in U.S. detention facilities and how border militarization has created these precarious conditions of sexual exploitation and assault. I’m also a legal intern at Curran, Berger, and Kludt Immigration Law Offices in Northampton. I work on the school team, which handles work for academic clients such as faculty at various colleges and universities, high-level researchers, and sometimes university staff. I help assemble documents for application packages. In the past, I’ve interned at Border Angels, a nonprofit in San Diego, California, that focuses on migrant rights, immigration reform, and the prevention of migrant deaths along the U.S./Mexico border; and at the Immigration Legal Assistance Program in Worcester, Massachusetts, which provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrants in the New England area. In the spring of 2023, I will complete my Master of Public Policy. I then hope to apply to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct research in Colombia. I’m also thinking of going to law school and hope to become involved in immigration advocacy.