Katherine Clifton

Biography

Katherine K. Clifton, Honolulu, is a 2015 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, where she earned a B.A. in English and a minor in Theatre. Dedicated to both facilitating dialogue across and within marginalized migrant communities and bringing the arts to a broad audience, she spent a year in Serbia after high school creating an English language program for Roma youth. After graduating, she has returned to Serbia for a year in order to develop and stage an original documentary play exploring hostilities between the Serb and Roma peoples. While a senior, Katherine tutored inmates at New Jersey correctional facilities as part of the Prison Teaching Initiative. She served in Princeton Student Government from her sophomore year on, and was a member of the Bhangra Punjabi dance Team.