Katrina Keegan earned her master's degree from the Davis Center's REECA program in 2022. Her fascination with economic and democratic development was sparked during her gap year studying Russian in Moldova, then the poorest country in Europe, which was undergoing an anti-corruption revolution. During her time as an undergrad at University of Chicago, where she graduated summa cum laude, she pursued this interest through a research fellowship on Russian media and internships at the Center for International Private Enterprise and the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs. Her undergraduate thesis was titled “Informant of the People: The Surprise Success Story of Corruption Coverage in the Ukrainian Media During 2019 Elections.” She has spent time in Ukraine, Russia (including nine months of classes taught in Russian at St. Petersburg State University), and Azerbaijan. In addition to Russian, she speaks advanced Ukrainian and Turkish, and has studied Uzbek. At Harvard, she focused on economic and democratic development in Central Asia and was the 2020-2021 innovation fellow with the Program on Central Asia. She has written for Russian Life magazine, Verge magazine, and Glint Literary Journal, among others.