Kathrine Johnsen (22 October 1917–25 June 2002) was a Norwegian Sámi teacher who worked for the public broadcasting service NRK Sápmi.
[1] After the war, Johnsen trained as a teacher in Tromsø where she and Edel Hætta Eriksen began producing Sámi-language radio broadcasts.
[2] In 1949, she began working at the Sámi secondary school in Kárášjohka, before being hired as a journalist at the Norwegian public broadcasting service NRK.
She served on many boards, including the newspaper Ságat, where she was chair, and the Nordic Sámi Institute, where she was a deputy member.
She is represented in the Norsk salmebok 2013 hymnal with a translation of Thorbjørn Egner's "Jeg folder mine hender små" (I Fold My Hands Small) into Northern Sámi.