She completed her undergrad in Minot, North Dakota in Deaf & Elementary Education, and then a Masters of Arts in Early Intervention in Deaf Education at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduation Catherine worked at the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf. A year later she moved west and worked at the Children’s Hearing and Speech Centre of BC, before coming to BCFHRC. While at the Centre, Catherine has been involved with running the PEER classroom, Partners and Playmates (PNP) group and providing outreach support to rural BC, while seeing local families as well. Catherine enjoys working with children and loves seeing families develop their confidence in supporting their child. Catherine is married with 3 children and enjoys cross stitching, binge watching Netflix and listening to audio books.