Cathleen has been a member of the Women’s Fund since 2015 and joined the Research Committee in 2016. She is a pharmacist and spent her career in a clinic setting until she went to work for Direct Relief International where she worked for 20 years until retirement 2013. She is also a  volunteer consulting pharmacist for the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics for the past 12 years. She loved working with Direct Relief's partners around the world and was fortunate to visit many of them. She is the mother of two, grandmother of four, a tennis player and long time follower of yoga.