Catherine has decades of experience in educational consulting, undergraduate college admissions, and university administration. She graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and from Stanford Law School, Order of the Coif.

Her experience includes years as an admissions consultant, application reader and executive liaison to senior leadership at Stanford University, and alumni interviewer for Harvard University. She was college relations liaison to the fifty elite colleges affiliated with Questbridge’s college-access program, including Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Princeton, UChicago, UPenn, Vanderbilt, and Yale.

At Stanford, she reviewed and evaluated undergraduate applications and supported university leadership’s institutional priorities, monitoring the Dean/Provost/Faculty undergraduate admissions committee and arranging student prospect and development meetings. At Questbridge, she supported college partners, managed the reading process, and evaluated applications on the selection committee.

Having evaluated and prepared thousands of applications to elite universities, Catherine brings a wealth of experience to help students produce the most shining college applications possible. She supports families in charting a purpose-driven journey as students find passion, meaning, and joy in their high school experience.

As the mother of two sons who were admitted to multiple elite Ivy+ schools, she knows what the process is like for students and their families in this day and age. Catherine knows that each child is different and unique, a gem to be polished. Hence, it is deeply meaningful for her to assist students through this once-in-a-lifetime process, which is why she does this work.

She resides in Palo Alto, where she grew up and attended Palo Alto Senior High School.

University Experience

Harvard University
Undergraduate Admissions Alumni Interviewer

Stanford University
Undergraduate Admissions Reader

Executive Liaison to Senior Vice Provost for Education, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Vice President for the Arts

Guest Lecturer, Stanford Law School

Non-Resident Fellow, Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society

University of California Law School, San Francisco

Adjunct Law Professor