U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of State

Katrina Reichwein

Vice-Consul

U.S. Consulate General

Guadalajara, Mexico

Katrina Reichwein, a proudly native Texan, joined the Foreign Service in May of 2009. She has just completed her first assignment as a consular officer at the Consulate General in Guadalajara, where she worked in both visa and passport sections.

Born and raised in Richmond, Texas, Katrina attended high school and university in the Houston area. She graduated from Sugar Land’s Fort Bend Baptist Academy in 2000, where she was selected as a National Hispanic Scholar. In 2004, she received a B.A. degree in political science from Rice University. Upon her college graduation , Katrina completed an internship in the Public Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile. She then moved to Nirasaki, Japan, where she taught English in a rural high school under the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET).

In 2006, Katrina was selected as a Rotary Foundation Scholar to Caracas, Venezuela. She spent two years in Caracas completing graduate coursework in political science at the Universidad Simon Bolivar.

Prior to her acceptance into the Foreign Service, Katrina worked in the international human resource division of Chevron International in both their Houston and Caracas offices.

Katrina speaks Spanish, rudimentary Arabic and will begin studying French and Creole in late 2011. In 2012, she will depart for her next assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

Katrina is married to David Rochkind, a documentary photographer from the Detroit, Michigan area.