yn's research interests fall broadly into the categories of sex and gender, political sociology, and social movements. More specifically, her work revolves around sex workers’ and sex trafficking survivors’ rights and questions surrounding bodily autonomy. She is interested in global sex workers’ rights movements and their relation to capitalism, colonialism, sex and gender disparities, and sexual freedoms. Her masters thesis focused on the legal system in in their Netherlands and how sex workers conceptualized their autonomy as citizens and sexual beings. Along with being a researcher, she considers herself to be a sex workers’ and sex trafficking survivors’ rights activist. Kathryn has been working with GEPA since 2019 and has been a summer research Intern for GIRL and a summer intern at the UNDP’s Oslo office.