Katharine Garcelon Swift, born 1949 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a sociologist and educator.  As a child she lived in North Bergen, New Jersey; Madison, Connecticut; Schenectady, New York; and Khuzestan, Iran.  She attended Connecticut College and also the University of Maryland where she received a B.A and M.S. in sociology.   Her husband retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a Captain in 1999 in Massachusetts and she spent ten years as a tenured member of the faculty at North Shore Community College, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has retired from that role. She lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts and has a seasonal home in Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine.

She was married to Ensign Robert Carl Gravino, USCG, in 1969 at Bainbridge, Maryland. 

Katharine Garcelon Swift and Robert Carl Gravino had the following children: