25 Facts About Katrina Swett

Yvonne Katrina Swett is the President of the Lantos Foundation.

Katrina Swett is an American educator and the former chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2012 to 2013, and then in 2014 to 2015.

Katrina Swett ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district during the 2002 United States midterm elections.

Katrina Swett skipped high school, entered college at 14, and transferred to Yale where her older sister Annette was a student.

Katrina Swett earned a degree in political science there in 1974 at 18, and her Juris Doctor in 1976 from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

Katrina Swett is the wife of Ambassador and former Congressman Richard Swett, vice president of Swett Associates, Inc.

In 2009, Swett was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for her efforts in setting up the Tom Lantos Institute in Budapest, continuing her late father's work for the benefit of ethnic minorities there.

In 2016, in the company of at least 100 other recipients of Hungarian state awards, Katrina Swett returned the Knight's Cross in protest of the Hungarian government's commendation of Zsolt Bayer, a writer, publisher, public speaker, and member of the Fidesz party for his rhetoric, what she considers antisemitic, anti-Muslim, and antiziganist.

Katrina Swett was a Congressional staffer, first as a legislative assistant and then as Deputy Counsel to the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Katrina Swett co-hosted a political talk show, Beyond Politics on WMUR-TV Channel 9 with former Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Tamposi.

Katrina Swett was national co-chair of Joe Lieberman's 2004 presidential race.

Katrina Swett accused General Wesley Clark of apostasy on the AUMF in the Iraq War of 2003, and for having linked Al-Qaeda with Iraq.

Katrina Swett ran for Congress in 2002, unsuccessfully attempting to recapture the seat previously held by her husband.

Katrina Swett received financial support from her parents, Nancy Pelosi, John and Lisa Pritzker, a San Francisco Supervisor and her husband, Warren Hellman, Herbert Sandler and Marion Sandler, Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw, David Geffen, and other Californians.

On January 18,2007, Katrina Swett announced her candidacy for the US Senate in the 2008 elections in New Hampshire, in hopes of being the Democratic nominee to unseat incumbent Republican John E Sununu.

On January 14,2010, Katrina Swett announced her candidacy for the Democratic Primary for Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in the 2010 elections.

Katrina Swett's more left-leaning opponent, Ann McLane Kuster, won the primary election, but Kuster lost in the general election to her Republican opponent, Charles Bass.

Katrina Lantos Swett has made a significant contribution to the field of human rights.

Katrina Swett is the President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, established in 2008 to perpetuate the legacy of her father.

Katrina Swett served as Vice-President and President of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Katrina Lantos Swett talked about the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, and her late father, Representative Tom Lantos, who founded the bipartisan Congressional Human Rights Caucus.

Katrina Swett told the story of her parents' escape from German labor camps and eventual immigration to the US from Hungary.

Katrina Swett discussed her failed campaign to represent New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional district in 2010, her husband Richard Swett's service as ambassador to Denmark and representation of New Hampshire's 2nd district for two terms, and raising seven children.

Katrina Lantos Swett teaches foreign policy at Tufts University, and is President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice.

Katrina Swett received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, her JD from the University of California, and her Ph.