Kathryn Lankester is a graduate of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA and a Starting Bloc Fellow. She served for a year as Princeton-in-Asia fellow at Asia Injury Prevention Foundation in Hanoi, where she was the Development Manager. While at Princeton, she was the co-coordinator of the Health Education and Rescue Training program and taught first aid for four years. She also served as a volunteer on her local ambulance corps in Tarrytown, NY. She is a certified first responder in the USA.