Catherine Mulinde is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Geography, Makerere University-Uganda in the fields of Climatology, Quantitative Geography, Natural Resource Management, Development and Conservation. She is an advisory committee member (Scientist) of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, a member of Youth Environment Network-Uganda, as well as a Research Assistant in Environmental Impact Assessing, Auditing, Evaluating and Monitoring. Her research interests are in Climatology - Atmospheric chemistry (Climate Change and its impacts on water resources, agriculture, vegetation, and health) as well as international and national environmental law and policy. Her interests are driven by the passion to attain environmental sustainability at all levels.

While at LTC as a Borlaug Fellow, Catherine had an opportunity of meeting and spending time in the labs of different professors in the other centers of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Departments of Geography, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, who greatly contributed to widening her academic career and research knowledge, skills and interests. She also visited the Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility (LICGF) in the School of Natural Resources, where she had training in Community Viz and ESRI courses in ArcGIS. Catherine also participated in the New England Aquarium and New England Science Center Collaborative Climate Change Backpack training in Norwell, Massachusetts, a training that provided hands on activities that modeled cooperative learning and reflected current research in climate change. She appreciates USAID, USDA (FAS), USTDA, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALs), Department of Geography, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and all its research centers, faculty, staff and students, as well as the University of Wisconsin -Madison as a whole, who made her stay a 'home away from home' and says: "when one opens a door, it is the very one to either leave it open or close it." Catherine chooses to leave hers open!