Her Story
About Cate
I currently serve as a program fellow with Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, an interfaith environmental justice organization based in Atlanta, where I started in August 2025. This is the role I spend the most time on, though I also work as a grants coordinator for Dance Collaborative in Greenville, South Carolina, and I'm pursuing my Master of Divinity full-time at Emory University in Atlanta. I've been working in the nonprofit sector since 2022, so about 4 years now. My areas of expertise include interfaith engagement, program development, and operations and evaluation. I do a good bit of event planning and gathering and analyzing data about those events. One achievement I'm really proud of is that as a grant writer for Dance Collaborative, an organization that tries to increase access to dance education, I helped secure a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2025. That funding specifically helped expand and actually create a dance and mental wellness initiative that's now up and running. The work I do with Dance Collaborative feels really special because I grew up as a dancer, so I get to help increase access to dance education. I also really love the environmental justice-related work I do with Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, working with different faith communities, because issues around the environment are super close to my heart.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Cate
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would say all of the educators that I've had in my life have really just empowered me. I feel like every one of my public school teachers that I had growing up, to my college professors, they've always really, really encouraged me. And my parents and my family have been really supportive. I think they're not always sure of what I'm up to, but they're supportive, and they always try to help in any way that they can. So yeah, my educators and my family have been instrumental in my success.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Set healthy boundaries would be, I think, probably the number one piece of advice. Just know your limits, make sure that you're not overworking yourself so you don't burn out. And then I would also say don't give up on having big dreams and big ideas. I think the way that we create a better world is if we imagine it, and the way we can imagine that is if we picture a world that is not this one. That requires big thinking, and that requires thinking outside the box, and so we need people who are thinking about ways of being that we don't already have.
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