Katherine Butler, a native of Charlotte, NC, is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She majored in Literature & Language and minored in business. 

Katherine is currently pursuing her Masters of Strategic Public Relations at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She discovered her passion working in communications after interning for a PR firm and with a Virginia House of Delegates campaign in 2017. 

As a varsity tennis player at Virginia Tech, Katherine has enjoyed traveling all over the world and meeting people from different countries through the sport. Through the sport, she was able to travel to the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics for a once in a lifetime experience.

As a CPD Student Fellow, Katherine is responsible for developing and implementing marketing plans promoting CPD's events and projects and collecting analytics for the Center's website and social media platforms.