Mentor Chat with Catherine Shen

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Catherine Shen has spent most of her career as a newspaper journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and a small daily on the coast of Maine, among others. She eventually veered into publishing and general management for the then Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and King County Journal Newspapers. She has experienced the digital revolution first-hand, working on the first computer terminals introduced to newsrooms and setting up the initial websites at some newspapers. Since 2011, she has directed communications for the UW School of Public Health. She earned her BA at Wellesley College and her MA at Claremont Graduate School. She was awarded a McCormick Fellowship to attend the Advanced Executive Program at Medill at Northwestern University, and has served on the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prizes.