Catherine Skrzypinski is a journalism instructor at Western Washington University. She is an international journalist hailing from New York with more than two decades of writing and editing experience in North America and Europe. Now based in Vancouver, British Columbia, she has been published in CAIFU magazine, the South China Morning Post, China Daily USA, National Geographic Traveler China, The Business Times of Singapore, the Society for Human Resource Management, Orlando Sentinel and the Voice of America.