Advancing Effective Mobilization and Protection of Whistleblowers for Accountability

Ms. Garrick founded Whistleblowers of America as a nonprofit in 2017, which provides voluntary peer support to those suffering the impacts of Workplace Traumatic Stress. She developed the Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist© to identify negative psychosocial impacts on victimized employees and provide forensic testimony. She is on the Advisory Boards for ConsenSys Health and Parrhesia, a British charity devoted to whistleblower research and on the Board of Directors for Brighton Marine, a homeless program in Boston. Over the last few years, Professor Garrick, has taught for the University of Southern California, School of Social Work and has supervised interns from the University of West Florida. She is also founder of the Workplace Promise Institute opened in Pensacola, FL in 2021.

Previously, she served as a US Army Officer and in executive positions at the American Legion and the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) and with the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Her areas of expertise include policy and program development for disabled veterans/wounded warriors, mental health and suicide prevention, transition assistance, and military survivors. She is a recognized public servant with awards from several distinguished organizations. She is the founder of the FAR Group, which provides consultation to public and private organizations that need development, advocacy, and educational support.

Ms. Garrick is a published authored, media source, and an international public speaker having also worked on projects in the former Soviet Union, for the US military in Germany and Afghanistan, and the World Health Organization in Switzerland. She is a social work master’s graduate from Temple University with additional training at Johns Hopkins and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a licensed social worker (LCSW-C) in MD and is credentialed through the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-CP), a BoardCertified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS) and Whistleblower Protection Advocate (WPA).

Kate serves as the International Liaison for International Whistleblower Advocates. She is our leader in forging relationships with anti-corruption civil society groups worldwide and human rights defenders worldwide and works with our team to advance best-practice whistleblower policies abroad. At Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto she provides legal assistance on cutting-edge transnational anti-corruption cases.

Kate graduated cum laude from Georgetown University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service with honors in her major, Culture & Politics. At Georgetown, Kate conducted extensive research on the efficacy of human rights laws in protecting against environmental injustices associated with green development.

In 2025 she earned her master’s degree at the University of Oxford, focusing on the relationship between displacement and environmental corruption. In addition to her work with Advocates, she is currently pursuing a joint Ph.D. and JD at the University of California, Berkley School of Law.

In addition to winning the first-ever $100 million whistleblower award (UBS Swiss Banker Bradley Birkenfeld), Kohn has set numerous precedents expanding the scope of protections for whistleblowers and securing multi-million dollar judgments under the False Claim, Dodd-Frank, tax, and environmental whistleblower laws. Kohn helped write key whistleblower laws, including Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley. He has pioneered transnational whistleblower protections under the FCPA and Commodity Exchange Act and was the principal author of the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Enhancement Act. In 1985 he wrote the first-ever legal treatise on whistleblower law. His 8th book on whistleblower law is Rules for Whistleblowers (Lyons Press 2023).