Age: 54, From: New York, NY
Health and human rights worker Cathy has lived in many places, including Panama, Puerto Rico, and Germany. She later studied Geriatric nursing and worked as a nurse in Hamburg, Germany, as well as obtaining an R.N. degree in the United States. She spent 10 years in Bolivia, working in the area of health and human rights. She was a founding member of Andean Information Network, a grassroots non-governmental organization, where her work focused largely on documenting and publicizing the negative effects of U.S.”War on Drugs” in Bolivia and the human rights abuses (arbitrary detentions, wounded, deaths) that were/are a direct effect of those policies. This work took her to Washington, DC, to the U.S. State Department and Senators’ offices.

With the Iraq Peace Team, Cathy remained in Iraq throughout the most recent invasion and during the first ten days of US Coalition Force occupation. While in Iraq, she remain in correspondence with a wide network of people through the assistance of companions with whom she lives and works at the Maryhouse Catholic Worker community in New York City.