Before joining Oakland North as a business reporter, Catherine worked as an assistant producer for the nationally syndicated radio program, Science Today, and as a contributing writer producing print and web content for Ms. magazine and Hyphen magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Huffington Post, the Arizona Republic, and the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix. As a undergraduate at Arizona State University, she wrote an opinion column for the college newspaper, The State Press, as well as features for its sister magazine, SPM. She is currently earning her master's degree at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism where she plans to focus her studies on investigative journalism and new media. Catherine has lived in the Philippines, Phoenix, New York and Los Angeles—but she feels most at home in the Bay Area.