Kate joined the Doctoral program after completing an LL.M. in Human Rights from CEU in 2020. Before that, she obtained an LL.M. in International and European Law from the Riga Graduate School of Law in 2018.
In her doctoral project, Kate researches dignity jurisprudence of the three regional human rights systems in Europe, Africa, and the Americas under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Markus Böckenförde.
Before joining CEU, Kate was a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna, and carried out internships at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Latvian Centre for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and Prague Security Studies Institute.
In 2022, Kate received the CEU Presidential Scholar Award, and in 2023 - the Advanced PhD Award.