Gorka married Pennsylvania native Katharine Fairfax Cornell on July 6, 1996, in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Sopron, Hungary.[14] The couple founded the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security in Budapest, Hungary in 2003.[113][114]
Katharine Gorka has also been involved with the administration of Donald Trump, first serving on his transition team for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).[115] She then became a policy advisor at DHS on April 7, 2017.[116][117] In the wake of the deadly white-supremacist rally and counterprotest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, her part at DHS, in defunding Life After Hate, a group which facilitates deradicalization, particularly of white supremacists, received attention.[118]