Katherina practices narrative writing coaching during and after epidemics, drawing on her oral history work and her training in radical listening and trauma counseling.

Katherina came to global health from a background in health, science and human rights journalism. Her writing has been published and/or recommended by The New Yorker, Guernica, The Economist, Longreads, The Guardian, The New York Times, and many others, earning her grants, awards and fellowships from the Carey Institute for Global Good and the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). She was the founding editor of Ebola Deeply, a platform that The Guardian called “an antidote to media scaremongering.” She teaches human rights & global health journalism. She has taught at the University of Liberia, and has trained and mentored journalists across 12 countries worldwide, including Brazil, Hong Kong, Uganda, Benin, Nigeria and Liberia, for Thomson Reuters Foundation. In the wake of the 2013-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, she led the inaugural fellowship for health and medical journalists in Liberia with Johns Hopkins University, USAID and Internews.