In summer 2022, Catherine worked with the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), Office of Sustainability to monitor and maintain some of our native prairie habitats, and will also be working with an urban ecology lab at UIC to monitor pollinator activity under power lines in the Chicago metro region. After graduation in May 2023, Catherine worked at the Office of Planning, Sustainability, and Project Management at UIC to monitor and maintain some of the native prairie habitats on campus. In September 2023, they began working at the Energy Resources Center at UIC as a Partner Coordinator for the Sustainable Landscapes team, which (among other things) manages a voluntary conservation agreement that encourages land owners and managers to adopt measures to create net conservation benefits for the monarch butterfly.