Kathryn is a former Associate Professor of Philosophy and affiliate faculty member in African American Studies and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 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 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 on contemporary hip-hop. Kathryn is the founding director of the 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 the founder of La Belle Vie Coaching, which offers initiatives for high achievers, the happily unmarried, and erotic empowerment. 

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