• Royce Fellowship
Catherine
Love

Concentration 

Latin American History

Award Year 

2003
Those Left Behind: Third-World Women and Migration

Faculty Sponsor: Paul Buhle

In the face if economic necessity, males in rural Costa Rica are often forced to migrate, leaving women in control of the family and community. Katy examined how temporary migration disrupts traditional notions of gender by obliging women to become household heads and community leaders.

Katy is currently a Senior Program Officer, Funds Dissemination Committee for the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, CA. Her background includes philanthropic activities and NGO programs, systems, and operations. Kathy spent four years at CARE International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration between six of the largest NGOs working to improve humanitarian response. She led the knowledge management and learning portfolio and focused on increasing accountability to disaster-affected people. Prior to that, Katy worked for several years at the Global Fund for Children, managing the Eastern Europe and US grants and capacity building initiatives.