Kate Brannen

Non-Resident Journalism Fellow

Kate Brannen is a Non-Resident Journalism Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. She was most recently deputy editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. Prior to joining Foreign Affairs in 2021, Brannen was the editorial director at Just Security. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy (FP), The Guardian, Slate, and USA Today. Previously, she was a senior reporter covering the Pentagon for FP. Before that, Brannen was a defense reporter for POLITICO, where she was responsible for POLITICO’s daily national security newsletter.

Brannen has also covered budget and defense policy debates on Capitol Hill as the congressional reporter for Defense News. She spent three years covering the U.S. Army — first as a reporter for InsideDefense.com, then as the land warfare correspondent for Defense News.

Brannen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in history. She has master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and School of International and Public Affairs.