On its last meeting of the month, ALLIES hosted a conversation with Lt. Maria Katrina Ablen (F’19) to talk about her personal experiences during her military service and her own observations about the future of the United States Navy.
Katrina is both a second-year MALD student at The Fletcher School as well as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve. Ablen was born to first-generation Filipino-American parents in Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. Following in her father’s footsteps, she entered the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Unit at The George Washington University. Katrina has completed tours in the Persian Gulf, the Horn of Africa, and in South Korea. She has served as an electronic warfare officer, damage control officer, and operations assessment officer throughout her time in the Navy and is currently enrolled full-time at Fletcher to pursue her graduate studies
