Although Catherine grew up outside of Atlanta, her roots run deep throughout the American South: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. After four wonderful years at Georgia Southern University, where she majored in English and minored in Spanish, Catherine moved to South Carolina in 2012 to attend graduate school at Clemson. In 2014, she began teaching English at Greenville Technical College as an adjunct before being hired full-time in 2015. She fell in love with this student population on her first day in the classroom and remains a passionate advocate for accessible, quality education.
This same passion for her students and other vulnerable populations in her community led Catherine to go back to school part-time to earn her MSW (Master of Social Work) in 2023. She now supports the work of the Student DREAMers Alliance and Hispanic Alliance as an MSW intern, and she could not be happier about this placement.
These days, Catherine spends much of her time grading and writing papers on her laptop in coffee shops across Greenville. When she is not in front of a screen, she loves attending Greenville’s many free community events, watching good movies, reading with her tiny dog, visiting friends out of state, and extroverting as much as possible.
