Kathrine Russell

Written by Alex Pender

Prior to joining KIND, Kathrine spent three years as a children's attorney at the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR) in Harlingen, TX, where she represented detained and non-detained children in immigration court, applications to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and state court dependency proceedings. Kathrine received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2008; after law school, she was an associate at Latham & Watkins in New York, where she worked on a variety of pro bono matters, including several cases of unaccompanied children. During law school, Kathrine was a summer associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, a law clerk at Texas Community Building with Attorney Resources (Texas C-BAR), and an intake specialist at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Kathrine received her B.A. in Latin American Studies from Columbia University in 2005. She is admitted to practice in New York and Texas.