Kathryn Kraft is a sociologist whose work explores faith, child spirituality, and human flourishing in contexts of vulnerability and displacement. She is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of East London and for the past decade served as Global Research Technical Director at World Vision International.
Kathryn co-founded the Global Initiative for Faith and Child Flourishing and convenes international conversations bringing theologians, scholars, and practitioners into dialogue on faith-informed development and the well-being of children, with a particular interest in creative qualitative and child-friendly participatory methodologies. Her previous work in a variety of different roles within international development and humanitarian aid has focused on empowering local civil society and peacebuilding, as well as in complex emergency response monitoring and evaluation.