
Katharina Meredith
Founder, Exit Nexus
2023, 2024
Katharina Meredith is the executive director of Stronger After, a non-profit helping people who have disengaged from high-control groups. She is a doctoral student and project coordinator at the Violent Extremism Research Group under the mentorship of Dr. John Horgan (Georgia State University). Her research areas include exit from extremism, intervention, program development, and evaluation. She is currently developing a job analysis of peer support in the exit space and an exit peer specialist curriculum with Georgia State and Parents for Peace. She has collaborated with Parents for Peace, Life After Hate, 211 LA, and the International Cultic Studies Association. She has developed and taught workshops and classes in Germany, Switzerland, and the US for people who grew up in coercive groups. Katharina has moderated panels and working groups for the European Radicalization Awareness Network, Southern Poverty Law Center, and ICSA. She recently founded Exit Nexus to translate research into practical applications for non-profits and other organizations.

The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
