2024 Women in Business Luncheon at Marble House

Kathryn (Kitty) Pilgrim is an award-winning broadcast journalist and thought leader in global affairs and media. During her 25-year tenure as a correspondent and anchor at CNN, she provided in-depth geopolitical and economic analysis, and has become known as one of the top voices in television. She was a correspondent for economic and international affairs, and her thousands of broadcasts and reports were viewed in more than 150 countries.  She anchored her own morning show Inside Edition, and became a CNN prime-time anchor, a position she held for more than a decade.  She has reported on almost every region of the world and has interviewed countless heads of state and political leaders.

She currently works in the fields of Women, Peace, and Security as well as Leadership and Media Communications, helping shape thinking on how world leaders and journalists contribute to stability in society. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has published at CFR on topic of the global advancement of women. She is active with the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, serving as a mentor in the Northern Ireland Young Leaders program. She has served on many boards including Manhattanville College, the Overseas Press Club, the East-West Institute, the NY board of Paris-based Reporters Without Borders. Her current broadcast activities currently include television guest appearances and producing her own branded podcast Pilgrim?s Progress, which seeks to highlight accomplishments of women who make a difference in society.  She has recorded a TEDx presentation on the benefits of the globalization of media, and she lectures frequently on that subject.   

She holds a bachelor?s degree from Manhattanville College, where she is now an adjunct professor, teaching on the topics of Women Peace and Security and Leadership Communications.  In 2012, she was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College. She holds a master?s in international and public affairs from Columbia University in NYC and studied at the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies. She is completing a Graduate Certificate in International Security at the Harvard Extension School. She was a distinguished fellow at East-West Institute in New York, active in their international security program. In the field of Asia-Pacific security, she was a fellow at the East West Center in Honolulu, participating in three separate fellowship programs for Korea, China and was awarded the Hong Kong Journalism fellowship.  She was a fellow at Salzburg Seminar in Austria for Asia Pacific Security. She lectures and participates in events and programs around the world, including the US Naval War College and the US Naval Postgraduate School, the Council on Foreign Relations and Pacific Forum, East-West Center and Vital Voices. 

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Lectures, Study Groups, Courses and Forums
International Affairs
Women Peace and Security


2022

Panelist, East-West Center International Media Conference, Honolulu Hawaii. (June 27-30, 2022) 
 
Moderator, Lyceum Lecture Series, Nantucket ? topic: Russia and energy security. (July 27, 2022) 
 
Instructor, Women, Leadership and National Defense Program, Institute for Security Governance, Defense Cooperation Agency, US Naval Postgraduate School. (October 31 ? November 11, 2022)  


2023

Panelist- moderator, Vital Voices Annual Meeting, Washington DC ? topic: Iran women?s movement.   (March 29, 2023) 

Speaker, Women Peace and Security Study Group, Pacific Forum, CSCAP Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.  (March 20-21, 2023) 

Panelist, Women?s Leadership panel. US Naval War College Symposium on Women Peace and Security. (April 26-28, 2023) 

Moderator, Lyceum Lecture series, Nantucket MA, - Women in Science  (July 27,2023). 

Panelist,  ?Women Peace and Security Imperative for Security Practitioners,? College of International and Security Affairs, National Defense University.  (August 16, 2023) 

Instructor, ?Women?s Leadership and National Defense? Education program, Institute for Security Governance, US Naval Postgraduate school. (October 23, - November 4, 2023) 


Moderator, Women?s Forum for the Economy and Society, Global Annual Meeting, Paris, France.  (November 27-29, 2023) 

Published Article, Council on Foreign Relations website, ?Remembering Mahsa Amini: Women Journalists advancing Women Peace and Security Principles? (September 14, 2023) co authored with Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese. 

Guest Lecturer, Women?s Leadership Course, Bard College, NY.  (November 17, 2023) 

Adjunct professor, Manhattanville College, Course description: Women Peace and Security. (Fall Semester 2023) 

2024

Mentor, National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Northern Ireland Emerging Leaders Program.  (Spring 2024) 

Panel participant, WPS Event Military Women?s Memorial, Women Peace and Security Series, Washington DC. (April 1, 2024)
 
Judge, Overseas Press Club Awards for Business Journalism. (April 25, 2024) 

Upcoming 

Graduate Certificate International Security, Harvard Extension School  (May 2024). 

Panelist, East-West Center Media Conference, Manilla Philippines (June 2024) 

Panelist Nantucket Annual Geschke Lecture Series (July 2024)