Catherine Andrews is Editorial Director at Washingtonian.com. She's a born-and-bred Washington native who took breaks from the metropolitan area for stints at college (the University of Virginia), teaching abroad (in Milan, Italy), grad school (getting her master's in online journalism at Northwestern University), and Atlanta (working at CNN.com). She is a founding member of the popular city blog DCist.com and has worked at washingtonpost.com. She currently lives in the U Street corridor with several political bloggers, two dogs, and the occasional squirrel. She enjoys running, baking, Italian, going to concerts and watching embarrassingly bad television.