Katharine Browning is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Bureau of Justice Assistance. She currently leads
BJAs efforts with the OJP Community-Based Intervention and Prevention Initiative and oversees a range
of BJA programs including Wrongful Conviction and Smart Suite Training and Technical Assistance. Prior
to joining BJA in 2018, she served as a Policy Advisor for the OJP Diagnostic Center, providing subject
matter expertise on a wide range of criminal justice topics and research methods for Diagnostic Center
teams in community engagements. In addition, she spent 11 years at the National Institute of Justice
managing a diverse portfolio of research and program development projects and four years in the
research division of OJP’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Her experience
includes conducting research on a variety of criminal justice topics, both as an Evaluation Specialist with
the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida. Kathy received a M.S. in
Administration of Justice and Risk from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in Criminology
and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, College Park.