Katherine Hancock Ragsdale

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The Reverend Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale is an Episcopal Priest based in Massachusetts. She has been the interim director of Political Research Associates since May 2005 [1].

She is a noted American Progessive, and is priest at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pepperell [2], part of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Ragsdale served for 17 years on the national board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. She is also on the board of NARAL: Pro-Choice America, The White House Project, the Progressive Religious Partnership, as well as the bi-national advisory board of The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence. She presented to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on behalf of NARAL: Pro-Choice America and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in 2004.[3]

Ragsdale is the editor of Boundary wars: Intimacy and distance in healing relationships [4], and the author of numerous articles, including The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to the Domestic Violence Crisis in Albany Law Review, and Hannah, a short story.