Kathleen Kern has worked for Christian Peacemaker Teams since 1993, serving on assignments in Haiti; in Washington DC; in the West Bank city of Hebron; in Chiapas, Mexico; in South Dakota; in Colombia; and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kern's articles and essays have appeared in Tikkun magazine and in the Baltimore Sun. Her chapter describing the work of CPT, From Haiti to Hebron with a Brief Stop in Washington, D.C.: The CPT Experiment, appeared in From the Ground Up: Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2000).