Cate is the Founder and Chief Expression Officer of Ecstatic Voice, a communication studio and voice lab for creative, dynamic, and multidisciplinary leaders and brands. She has supported a wide variety of companies, from startups to Fortune 500 corporations, in activating their missions, authentically engaging with their audiences, and bringing their unique stories to life through products and programming. And she has guided many one-on-one clients, from creative directors to CEOs, to define their voices, change careers, upgrade their messaging, and communicate with joyful ease.

In a nearly 20-year creative career that began in multiplatform marketing at the interactive Current TV in San Francisco and soon moved into the creative and media industries in Los Angeles, Cate has continually sharpened her storytelling lens and built a diverse-on-purpose toolkit that includes everything from editorial direction to commercial direction. Along the way, she has established and elevated brand voice, shaped communication and content strategy, and created digital and physical work for brands like Disney, Target, Tumblr, GoldieBlox, Poketo, and ban.do.

An early champion of intersecting creativity and technology, Cate previously founded 11 Betties, a nonprofit educational media company with the mission of helping young women and nonbinary folks make math their own. Through 11 Betties, she created the short films How I Do Math, MATH BRAIN, and the scripted series Tutored, receiving praise from people and places like Ms. Magazine, BUST Magazine, Shonda Rhimes, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, WIFEY and WhoHaha, funding from The Harnisch Foundation, and additional commissions from BUST and Smart Girls.

In 2016, Cate was recruited to co-create and co-host an interdisciplinary podcast for Forbes, while also serving as its CCO. The Limit Does Not Exist launched at SXSW and was acquired by iHeartMedia in 2020, with millions of downloads over three seasons and 125 episodes. The show was featured in The Washington Post and Adweek, and recorded live from The Studio at NASA JPL, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Brown University, and with Southern California Public Radio at The Annenberg Space for Photography.

Cate holds a B.S. in Communication from Northwestern University, an MFA in Acting from UC San Diego, and is an alum of the celebrated Groundlings Sunday Company. She lectures on communication at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, mentors fellow creatives through the Northwestern University Entertainment Alliance, and writes and produces The Ecstatic Review weekly on Substack.

She currently splits her time between LA and SF, which means lots of time spent listening to podcasts and hatching new ideas on the 5.