Bio
Catherine is the Community Field Fellow with the ACLU of Hawaiʻi, where she supports grassroots organizing, public education, and community-based advocacy across the islands. She recently graduated from Stanford University, where she studied Symbolic Systems and Dance. While at Stanford, she served as Co-President of Stanford ACLU and led the first large-scale digital humanities project on Hawaii’s plantation life.
Her experience spans public history, nonprofit advocacy, and digital humanities through roles at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Pro Bono Institute, End Rape On Campus, and Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Catherine’s work brings together technology, history, and community engagement to expand access to Hawaii’s history and advance equity. Her research has been recognized with eight humanities research grants, the Emerging Scholar Award at the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, the Hume Honors Fellowship, the Glushko Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, and through her induction to the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society.. In her free time, Catherine enjoys making jewelry for her organization Shell Sister Jewelry, which has contributed to planting around 1,500 corals with Care for Coral. She also loves dancing ballet and practicing calligraphy!