Kathleen was an RA in Alumni Hall while she studied in the Gallatin School.  She graduated in December 2001. Kathleen was born in Washington, DC. She is an artist, writer, and geographer based in Marfa, Texas. Her visual and academic work explores landscape, space, and place, home and memory, and aviation and aerial geography. Her first book, Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2017. She is working on two books about airports.