Catherine Butchy ’20 is a 2018 Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Originally from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Catherine graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with a B.S. in Economics, a B.A. in Spanish, and a Certificate in Portuguese. While in school, she studied abroad in Spain and Brazil and worked for four years at Pitt’s daily student-run newspaper, The Pitt News, eventually serving as the paper’s Managing Editor. After graduating, Catherine worked briefly at the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority before returning to Pittsburgh to work as a contractor at Google. There, she served as a bilingual product classification analyst before being recruited to the product taxonomy team, where she worked with library scientists and other language professionals in developing a resilient product taxonomy for Google Shopping. In 2017, she left that position to pursue a J.D. at Temple.
Catherine will spend her summer in D.C. with the Law & Public Policy Program as an intern at Microsoft’s Government Affairs office. Her policy interests include immigration, education, and the regulation of emerging technologies.