Catherine Woodard

Catherine Woodard is a nonprofit leader, poet and former newspaper reporter and digital news editor. She is on the board of the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit teaching skills to combat disinformation. Catherine is the author of Opening the Mouth of the Dead, a narrative story in poems published in 2017 as a limited edition book art and paperback. She is president of the Poetry Society of America and a former president of Artists Space for emerging artists. As a reporter at New York Newsday and Newsday, she won public service awards for investigative stories about HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant TB, and tax policies that cheated under-resourced school districts.