ABOUT

Originally from Passaic, New Jersey, Cat is a journalist who is passionate about creating accessible conversations about culture and its consumption to the mainstream.

She’s a first-generation Colombian-American, and proud member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Association of Independents in Radio.

She covers arts and entertainment at the intersection of pop culture and power. She has bylines in V Magazine, VMAN, NPR Music and WNYC Studios, The Road to Sound, Outlander Zine, LatinaMedia.Co and other outlets.

She’s a multi-hyphenate with multiple multi-platform journalism projects under her belt.

Most recently, Cat was an Associate Producer at The Takeaway, a national radio program and podcast by WNYC Studios. Before that, she worked as a News Assistant for NPR’s national radio show Weekend All Things Considered. She also worked as the Alt.Latino intern for NPR Music and as the digital editorial intern for V Magazine and VMAN.

Cat has her Master’s Degree in Magazine Writing and Digital Storytelling from New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she covered entertainment, culture, politics and immigration.

She has her Bachelors of Arts from Columbia College of Columbia University in the City of New York, where she majored in English and Political Science and served as a News and Arts correspondent for WKCR FM 89.9 New York. She was also the founder, producer, and host of WKCR’s Freedom Radio Hour: a radio program dedicated to connecting those inside of carceral facilities with educational resources, information, and entertainment that is often withheld from them, as well as serve as an open platform for people affected by incarceration to share their voices via the radio waves. She previously worked on a show she co-founded, produced, and hosted called PRIMEROSAS: a Latinx News and Arts show for WKCR that covered politics, identity, and popular culture through a Latinx lens and shared real, raw, and unfiltered first narratives.

She’s an experienced writer and editor. She runs a Substack newsletter entitled Pop-Closure: a humorous sporadically-published column from Cat where she is dedicated to celebrating the best things, laughing at the worst things, and making up explanations for the parts of popular culture that are yet to be definitively explained. She was also the inaugural nonfiction editor for the Columbia College Eric Holder Initiative’s premier justice-focused creative writing journal, That Which Remains, where she edited pieces from activists like Nnamdi Asomugha and Akemi Kochiyama, and currently incarcerated writers.

She’s a speaker, panelist, and moderator with appearances on Good Morning America, Columbia College Women, Columbia University’s Eric Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights, Columbia University’s New Student Orientation Program, and Passaic High School’s Career Week. 

You can often find her joking about her love of celebrities/fictional characters and writing about life on the Internet in a way that her mom doesn’t really understand, but is proud of nonetheless. 

Follow her on Twitter and Instagram under the handle @catverypopular.