Katrina Swett

International Relations
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Southern Denmark, 2006

Biography

Katrina Swett received her undergraduate education in Political Science at Yale University (B.A., 1974) and her J.D. at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (1976). She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern Denmark (2006).

Dr. Swett has taught Human Rights and American Foreign Policy at the University of Southern Denmark, served as Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy at New England College, and worked as Deputy Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee – Criminal Justice Subcommittee. She has also been active in Democratic politics for more than two decades and was the Democratic congressional nominee for New Hampshire's 2nd District in 2002. She currently serves as President and CEO of the newly established Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice.

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