Kate Gould
Legislative Program Assistant, Foreign Policy
Kate is thrilled to be at FCNL for a second year advocating never-before-tried U.S. talks with Iran and a timetable for complete withdrawal of all US troops, contractors, and bases in accordance with the wishes of the vast majority of the Iraqi people and its directly elected parliament. Kate studied International Development Reform and Political Science at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Her education has focused on the influence of both US military and humanitarian intervention in the developing world by interviewing people in places very much impacted by it--Bolivia, Ecuador, and Zanzibar/Tanzania.
For her senior project, she wrote a report requested by the international development agency CARE on how to make its HIV/AIDS awareness programs more locally relevant. For the report, she interviewed 50 Zanzibari women on how HIV/AIDS education and treatment could be taught and implemented in accordance with local Islamic teachings and culture. She brings to FCNL her grassroots advocacy experience from interning at a residence and employment center for political refugees and extensive anti-war organizing, including co-coordinating the largest anti-war protest and media event on WWU’s campus since the 2003 illegal invasion of Iraq.
Kate became enamored by Quaker spirit and principles from her many (life changing) years as a camper and counselor in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camping Program. When not salivating over GAO (Government Accountability Office) reports, Kate loves dancing, singing en masse a la songbooks and tambourines in folksy ho-down fashion, and morning jogging through the National Zoo to spy on sleeping lions, tigers, and the cutest baby panda bears you ever did see. Kate is planning a trip to the Middle East next year for language study and to volunteer in that part of the world that she has fallen in love with during her time at FCNL—and would welcome your suggestions for it!
Listen to Kate's speech from FCNL's Annual Meeting.
To find out more about what Kate and the other FCNL program assistants are up to, check out our blog: Of Peace and Politics.
More FCNL Staff
More Experts
Reviewed:
10/28/2008
|
