She is the product of a Jesuit education at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and focuses much of her work on social justice issues. Cataldo’s work profiling a women’s drug treatment center, reported while she was a McCormick Social Justice Fellow, was featured on WBEZ 91.5 FM and Vocalo 90.7 FM in Chicago. She is a 2014 White House Correspondents’ Association recipient of a Deborah Orin Scholarship.