Kate Pollack
Senior Program Associate
Kate Pollack has a master’s degree in Forensic Science and a master’s degree in Cultural Foundations of Education, with a graduate certificate in Disability Studies, all from Syracuse University. Kate’s graduate research focused on Deaf and disabled children in homeschools who were victims of abuse and homicide. Kate’s undergraduate research was at Hunter College in New York City, where she unfolded the story of a psychiatrically disabled Puritan man who was kept in a cage in his family home. This research led her to focus on disability and crime, including institutions and asylums in American history. Kate also has a Fine Arts degree from Pratt Munson in Utica, NY.
Recently, Kate interned at the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office in the Special Victims Bureau where she assisted with finding evidence in a rape in the first case. Kate is a published writer who has written a blog for many years on disability and crime, and disability law. Kate lives in Syracuse, NY, but is originally from Eugene, Oregon. She grew up bicoastal and has settled on Syracuse as her home, where her family has immigrant roots going back 100 years. Kate enjoys swimming, collecting antiques, cartooning and drawing, and spending time with her two cats, and her friends and family.