Kate Cook

The daughter of an Air Force Colonel, Kate was born in K.I. Sawyer AFB in 1977. Living several places as a child, including Alaska and Germany, she graduated from Liberty High School in Colorado Springs in 1995, and then attended The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, largely because she had not yet lived in the southeastern region of the United States. Kate graduated magna cum laude from Sewanee in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Russian language and literature and in 1997 studied urban housing privatization in Russia as a Biehl Grant Recipient. She was then invited to study at...