Katrina Gamble, PhD

Katrina Gamble, PhD is the founder and president of Sojourn Strategies a social impact consulting firm that works with progressive organizations to build innovative programs and campaigns. Katrina is a researcher, educator, and political strategist that brings more than fifteen years of experience working at the intersection of social justice policy, advocacy campaigns and electoral politics. Katrina has deep and extensive relationships with grassroots organizations across the country – she has combined that network with her campaign experience to support successful pro-democracy campaigns across the country.

Prior to founding Sojourn Strategies, Katrina was the national political director at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). During her time at CPD she launched the organization’s Voting Rights & Democracy program and provided direct support to more than a dozen state organizations that drove political and GOTV programs that contacted more than 1 million voters across the country.

Before moving into the social advocacy space, Katrina was an assistant professor of Political Science at Brown University where she taught and conducted research on race, gender, and identity politics in the United States. Her work on race and political representation can be found in top-peer reviewed journals. In 2009 -10 she was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow where she served as a policy adviser in the Office of the Majority Whip for James E. Clyburn (D-SC). Katrina holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Emory University and a B.A. in Government from Smith College.