POPVOX Foundation welcomes Katherine Long
POPVOX Foundation is honored to welcome Katherine Long as a Casework Programs Senior Fellow
Katherine has decades of experience as a public servant and an advocate for citizen involvement in government. She had the honor of serving for 15 years in Senator Leahy’s Vermont office, resolving over 4,000 complex cases and speaking with thousands of Vermonters about their experiences with government. As Casework Manager, she led the successful closure of his casework operation after 48 years in office. Her casework portfolio focused on military and veterans affairs, housing, and taxes. She also worked extensively to repatriate American citizens during crisis situations around the world and to relocate our allies from Afghanistan.
Prior to joining Senator Leahy's staff, Katherine was the Director of Public Policy for the Vermont Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations (VANPO), a Training Fellow with the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (now Bolder Advocacy), and adjunct faculty at St. Michael’s College, developing and conducting training for nonprofit leaders in advocacy strategies and lobbying rules. She has experience in mental health, energy efficiency, and agriculture, and is proud to have served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, speaking Zarma and occasional French.
Katherine has a master of public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, a bachelor of arts in anthropology from Cornell University, and she studied and conducted fieldwork in Nepal with the University of Wisconsin.
As a Casework Programs Senior Fellow, Katherine will focus on developing resources for constituent service teams and exploring new ways to support innovation in Congressional casework.
