Attorney alumna to be featured in live session focused on career, sustainability
Penn State Eberly College of Science alumna and U.S. government trial attorney Katherine Esposito will be featured in a live question-and-answer session titled "A Penn State Degree as a Foundation for Sustainability in Professional Life and Beyond: A Q and A with Alumna Katherine Esposito.” The session will be led by the college’s Sustainability Council chair, Charles Anderson, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, in 100 Huck Life Sciences Building (Berg Auditorium) on Penn State's University Park campus.
Members of the University and surrounding communities are invited to attend this free, public event.
Esposito graduated from Penn State in 2002 with bachelor of science degrees in biology (vertebrate physiology option) and psychology (biological sciences option). During her time at Penn State, she participated in biodiversity classes in Alaska and Australia, which she found most influential. She then earned a juris doctor degree in 2006 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she completed the Health Law Certificate Program. She currently works as a trial attorney within the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Vaccine Litigation in Washington, D.C., where she represents the secretary of health and human services on claims arising under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Esposito is an advocate for both sustainability and public health measures, and she incorporates both whenever possible and encourages others to do the same. Prior to COVID-19, she oversaw and collected data for a pilot compost program in a local elementary school lunchroom. She volunteers with her community’s Green Team, and currently serves on the Frederick County (Maryland) Solid Waste Advisory Committee. She also is the president of her local library friends group, as well as a Girl Scout co-leader of two troops.