Cathy Hyde started her journey with CASACD as an Administrative Assistant on January 24, 2017. She was promoted to Development and Events Coordinator on July 1, 2019 and served as the Operations Director starting July 2021. In May of 2022 she moved into the role of CO-Executive Director of Operations alongside Janine Mariani. Cathy received her Baccalaureate of Arts with dual majors in History and Library Science and Media, and her Masters’ Degree in Education with a concentration in Library Science and Media. Both degrees focused on curriculum building for differentiated instruction and problem solving.

Cathy describes herself as a tea drinking, book reading, chocolate eating (dark please!), mountain girl that somehow found herself in the Midwest. She recently left our beautiful mountains to live in Lincoln Nebraska and has continued her work with CASA remotely. Her most recent accomplishment is “keeping my rose bush alive despite my notoriously black thumb.”