Kitty Pilgrim

She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations,{{Cite web |title=Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}} a member of Chatham House{{Cite web |date=2025-04-24 |title=Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank |url=https://www.chathamhouse.org |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.chathamhouse.org |language=en}} in London, and a member of the NACFP, National Committee on American Foreign Policy. {{Cite web |title=NCAFP {{!}} National Committee on American Foreign Policy |url=https://ncafp.org |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=ncafp.org |language=en-US}} In 2024 she became a adjunct senior fellow in the Office of the president at East-West Center in Honolulu. She accepted a nonresident Fellowship in Women Peace and Security at WIIS (Women in International Security) in 2024 and continues to work with that organization. Many of her academic fellowships involve security issues in various regions of the world. She was a fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, for Asian Pacific security, a fellow at the East–West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, for Asian economic and security issues,{{cite web |title=Kitty Pilgrim |url=http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/resources/publications/PDF/ewc50yrs50stories-07pages44-51.pdf |accessdate=February 19, 2012 |publisher=East West Center}} and a Hong Kong journalism fellow and a fellow in the East–West Center's Korean Journalism exchange.

Pilgrim graduated from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, with a degree in political science. She studied Russian, economics and political science, which ultimately led to her career in journalism. She delivered the commencement speech for the Class of 2012, earning an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College.{{cite web|url=http://www.mville.edu/alumni/alumni-in-the-news/spotlights/2248-kitty-pilgrim-76.html |title=Kitty Pilgrim '76 |publisher=Manhattanville College |work=Alumni in the News > Spotlight |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228161834/http://www.mville.edu/alumni/alumni-in-the-news/spotlights/2248-kitty-pilgrim-76.html |archivedate=December 28, 2011 }} She currently teaches Women Peace and Security and Critical Thinking at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. In 2025, she is teaching in the Leadership for Change program at the Bard College summer session in Brooklyn NY.

She has a master's from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.{{cite web|url=http://greenheritagenews.com/kitty-pilgrim-links-women-and-science-in-book-the-explorer%E2%80%99s-code/ |title=Kitty Pilgrim /links Women and Science in Book The Explorer's Code |date=October 19, 2011 |publisher=Journal of Humanitarian Affairs |author=Kay Matthews |accessdate=February 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120709025156/http://greenheritagenews.com/kitty-pilgrim-links-women-and-science-in-book-the-explorer%E2%80%99s-code/ |archivedate=July 9, 2012 }} She attended the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union.{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/content/educators/Pandemic_Influenza_Agenda_and_Bios.pdf|title=Council on Foreign Relations|date=2005|publisher=Council on Foreign Relations}} In 2024 she earned a Graduate Certificate in International Security from Harvard Extension School. In 2025 she earned a certificate at Harvard Business School's Executive Women's Leadership Program.

She is interested in science and exploration, particularly ocean science and arctic regions, and is a fellow in the Royal Geographical Society in London, and a full member of the Explorer's Club of New York City. . She participates in various scientific meetings on oceanography and arctic security.

Pilgrim worked as New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN for 25 years. Her travels have taken her on special assignments to Russia, Cuba, China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and parts of Africa. In domestic reporting she covered economics, politics, and a range of other topics. She was part of the CNN team that broadcast continuously in New York during the September 11 attacks and in the weeks thereafter.{{cite web|url=http://www.mville.edu/news-a-events/press-releases/3139-2012-commencement-speakers.html |title=Manhattan College Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement and Baccalaureate 2012 Speakers |publisher=Manhattanville College |date=February 9, 2012 |accessdate=February 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222065014/http://www.mville.edu/news-a-events/press-releases/3139-2012-commencement-speakers.html |archivedate=February 22, 2012 }}

Kitty Pilgrim began her career as a New York City-based news anchor and correspondent for CNN, starting in 1986 as a production assistant, and was named correspondent shortly thereafter.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/pilgrim.kitty.html |title=Anchors & Reports – Kitty Pilgrim |publisher=CNN |date= |access-date=February 19, 2012}} She anchored her own morning show, Early Edition, in 1998 and 1999 and served as an anchor for CNN, CNNI, CNNfn, and Headline News for more than a decade.{{cite web|author=Dennis Brady |url=http://bradyreports.com/former-cnn-anchor-kitty-pilgrim-her-cnn-her-new-career-novelist/ |title=Former CNN Anchor Kitty Pilgrim, On Her Past at CNN and Her Career as a Novelist |publisher=BradyReports |date=September 20, 2011 |accessdate=February 19, 2012}} Starting in 2001, she was prime-time back-up anchor for the 7PM hour on CNN, a position she held for a decade.

She also served as a correspondent for CNN's Southeast Bureau and was the lead correspondent in CNN's coverage of the Birmingham, Alabama anti-abortion violence in 1998 and the subsequent hunt for suspect Eric Rudolph. She was also part of the CNN Moneyline team that won an Overseas Press Club Award for its live broadcasts from Havana, Cuba, in 1995. Pilgrim has won an Emmy, Peabody and the New York Society of Black Journalists Award for field reporting on social and economic issues in South Africa.

Pilgrim travels the world on speaking engagements regarding Women Peace and Security, Leadership Communications and the role of the media. Her recent appearances include multiple panels at the annual global meeting of the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in Paris,{{Cite web |title=Women's Forum Global Meeting 2023 |url=https://www.womens-forum.com/e/women-s-forum-global-meeting-2023/speaker/4cc13fa5-ca5e-ee11-9937-000d3a4cc0c5/kathryn-kitty-pilgrim |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Women's Forum Community |language=en}} the Annual Women Peace and Security Symposium at the Naval War College, training seminars at US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, the Women Peace and Security Series at the Military Women's Memorial,{{Cite web |title=Women, Peace & Security Series: Air + Space - Military Women's Memorial |url=https://womensmemorial.org/program/women-peace-security-series-air-space/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |language=en-US}} the New York Times TEDx lecture series.{{Cite web |title=Kitty Pilgrim {{!}} TEDx Times Square |url=http://tedxtimessquare.com/?page_id=446 |access-date=2025-04-13 |language=en-US}}

Pilgrim has also written fiction - romantic thrillers with an international flavor, featuring an archaeologist John Sinclair, and a female oceanographer, Cordelia Stapleton.Contemporary Authors Volume 327 Volume 327. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 2013. In 2010 she signed a two-book deal with New York publisher Charles Scribner's Sons.{{cite news | title = Dealmaker Scribner | date = April 28, 2010 | url = http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/cgi-bin/dealmaker.pl?id=2532 | work = Publishers Marketplace | accessdate = 2010-07-12}} Her novels The Explorer's Code.{{cite web |date= |title=The Explorer's Code |url=http://www.kittypilgrimbooks.com/the-explorers-code/ |accessdate=February 19, 2012 |publisher=Kitty Pilgrim}} and The Stolen Chalice, were published by Scribner. Her third novel "Summer of Fire" came out in 2014. Her romantic thrillers are characterized by their diverse locations and "around the world" approach.{{cite news |last=Cho |first=Yoojin |date=August 3, 2011 |title=MV Book Festival Interview Series: Kitty Pilgrim |url=http://www.mvtimes.com/2011/08/03/mv-book-festival-interview-series-kitty-pilgrim-6985/ |newspaper=The Martha's Vineyard Times}} According to WorldCat, the book is held in 588 libraries.WorldCat book entryHer debut novel, The Explorer's Code, was quickly followed by a sequel "the Stolen Chalice". The book is held in 421 libraries.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759913684 WorldCat book entry] A third novel based on the same characters. "Summer of Fire" was published by River Grove. The book is held in 65 libraries.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/912884403 WorldCat book entry]

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