Kate Herndon

Biography

Kate E. Herndon, Newburyport, is a senior at the University of Alabama completing a double major in Criminal Justice and History. Her academic work examines the origin of laws defining and punishing domestic violence and the evolution of this legislation over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kate is a committed domestic violence advocate and serves as the director of the student government’s SAFE Center Committee. She is a recipient of the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, is managing editor of a law and public policy journal and maintains a yoga practice. At Oxford, Kate intends to pursue the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice.