Catherine is a multimedia journalist based in the Washington, D.C. area. She has has worked as a web producer and staff writer for POLITICO and has written for publications including the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and Der Spiegel, where she spent two months as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow. Catherine graduated from Yale in 2010 with BA and MA degrees in political science and has since reported internationally from Berlin, Germany and Lima, Peru.
High in the mountains outside of Ayacucho, Peru, all 60 families in the
community of Tambobamba are involved in cultivating quinoa, a crop grown
for its seeds that are rich with nutrients and nutty flavor.