Katie Whipkey

Katie Whipkey (she/her) is a Research Consultant with the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, where she leads the Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025 report. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public and International Affairs. Her research focuses on feminist foreign policy (FFP), examining how governmental and civil society actors interact in international spaces to shape FFP in policy and practice. 

Katie has over a decade of experience in policy analysis, research and evaluation, with a focus on civic space, inclusive governance, women’s rights, gender-based violence, peacebuilding and disaster recovery. She has worked with global organizations such as CARE, CIVICUS, JASS and RAND, leading multi-country research and evaluations in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Her work emphasizes participatory methodologies, feminist approaches and the translation of evidence into action.

She holds an M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. with honors in Psychology from The Ohio State University. Katie brings a deep commitment to intersectional feminism and building transnational solidarity to defend civic space and advance human rights.