Katherine is the co-founder and editor of El Colectivo 506, an independent media outlet in Costa Rica focused on solutions journalism and rural communities. She specialises in long-form reporting on immigration, education, women’s rights, and civil society. As a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism (Carter Center, USA, 2021-2022), she leads an effort to train and support rural journalists in Costa Rica as they develop reporting on this topic. Katherine has worked as the editor-in-chief of The Tico Times and she has published in international media including Yes! Magazine and The Huffington Post. She lives in San José with her husband Adrián and her daughter Emma Jane, for whom she wrote “Love in Translation: Letters to My Costa Rican Daughter,” published in 2016.
