Cathlin Goulding EdD, co-directs The YURI Education Project. She is a graduate of the Multicultural Urban Secondary English (MUSE) program at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.

She started in the education field as an English and poetry teacher at a public high school in the East San Francisco Bay Area. She later trained as an education researcher at Teachers College, joining research teams dedicated to inclusive education, diversity work, and history education in post-conflict settings.

In her research, she studies public memory, place-based learning, and teaching historical violence. As the daughter and granddaughter of Japanese-Americans incarcerated during World War II, the history and reverberations of the concentration camp continue to be central areas of inquiry. Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Library of Congress, and Columbia University's Earth Institute. She served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and a visiting scholar at New York University. She has published research in multiple peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy and the Journal of Public Pedagogies. In addition to YURI, she has developed curriculum and workshops for the Minor Collective, iPondr@Work, and David's Legacy Foundation.

Currently, she teaches future public school teachers and instructional leaders at the City University of New York, San José State University, and Teachers College, Columbia University.

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