Catherine Shoichet writes and edits breaking news stories for the CNN Wire in Atlanta. She is fluent in Spanish and works closely with CNN en Español to cover Latin America and immigration issues.

Before coming to CNN in 2010, Catherine spent six months working in the Mexico City bureau of The Associated Press.

As a reporter for four years at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, she covered five tropical storms, two alligator attacks, one international real estate scam and countless county commission meetings.

Catherine hails from the suburbs of Detroit, where she got her first taste of journalism at her high school newspaper. She graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 2004 with an A.B. in History and Literature, specializing in France and America.

In 2009, she graduated with an M.A. in political journalism from Columbia University, where she received the Gray Fellowship for International Reporting.

Her work also has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Chronicle of Higher Education.