Kathryn is a former Associate Professor of Philosophy and affiliate faculty member in African American Studies as well as Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research and teaching interests lie in Africana/African American Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, Continental philosophy (especially Existentialism), and Critical Philosophy of Race. She has also taught in African American Studies/African Diaspora Studies and Women's Studies. Kathryn has published articles on race, assimilation, feminism, intersectionality, and sex and sexuality as well as contemporary hip-hop. Kathryn is the founding director of Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP), the former director (2010-2016) of Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy (CUSP), and a founding co-editor (2013-2016) of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race (CPR). She is also founder and owner of La Belle Vie Coaching, offering initiatives for (1) high achievers, (2) the happily unmarried, and (3) erotic empowerment.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Kathryn is involved in the program Black Feminism and the Polycrisis.