Katherine H. Tucker

Katherine H. Tucker

Policy Analyst

Katherine Tucker is a policy analyst at RAND. She works within the Defense and Political Sciences Division on projects related to global governance for national security, artificial intelligence, forecasting, the intelligence community, and FEMA policy. She previously worked as a summer associate and adjunct for RAND. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She studies terrorism, domestic extremism, right-wing extremism, the intelligence community, and international security. Her dissertation examines how the U.S. intelligence community prioritizes international terrorism and domestic terrorism threats. 

Education

B.A. in international affairs; religion, Transylvania University; M.P.P. in homeland security policy, University of Southern California (USC); Ph.D. in public policy, Harvard University

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Research Assistant, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Selected Work

  • Kane, Bridget R., Stephen Webber, Katherine H. Tucker, Sam Wallace, Joan Chang, Devin McCarthy, Dennis Murphy, Daniel Egel, and Tom Wingfield, Threats to Critical Infrastructure: A Survey, RAND Corporation (RR-A2397-2), 2024
  • Kane, Bridget R., Stephen Webber, Katherine H. Tucker, Sam Wallace, Joan Chang, Devin McCarthy, Dennis Murphy, Daniel Egel, and Tom Wingfield, Defending the Homeland Against Critical Infrastructure Attacks: Exploring a Hypothetical Campaign of Cascading Impacts, RAND Corporation (RR-A2397-3), 2024
  • Kotila, Brodi, Casey Mahoney, Katherine H. Tucker, Karson Elmgren, Lennart Heim, and Ella Guest, RAND Response to NIST Request for Input on AI 100-5, “A Plan for Global Engagement on AI Standards”, RAND Corporation (PE-A3379-2), 2025

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