Kate Catlin is a Seattle native, proud Gonzaga University grad, and 2013 Venture for America Fellow. Currently Kate is serving as an apprentice in mobile app development at Detroit Labs. Outside of work, she’s passionate about small businesses, trail running, and exploring Detroit-area eateries.
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How Detroit Turned Me into a Coder and Entrepreneur
There are three things happening in my life right now that, frankly, would have shocked the college-aged Kate Catlin: I live in Detroit; I’m being trained as a coder; and I’m starting a tech company. All through college I was a gregarious environmental activist living in Washington State and happily climbing mountains every weekend. I dreamed of traveling abroad and leading political campaigns, or maybe a “social enterprise” like TOMS shoes. It almost gives me whiplash to look around now and ask, “What just happened?”
