Introduction: Kate Bloom

My name is Kate Bloom. 

I am a senior, and I am a major in both Social Welfare and International Studies. My area of interest is disaster relief and I'm currently working on a research project concerning community response and development in post-earthquake cities in developing and developed nations.

Christchurch Cathedral in 2013, two years after the earthquake, next to a picture of what it originally looked like.

I was born and raised in small town Wisconsin. After moving to Madison, I still keep in touch with my friends from home by spending more time than I care to admit playing pub trivia and board games.

After I graduate in December I'm moving to New Zealand, and I'm hoping to work for the Red Cross while I am there. I spent my winter break there a year ago travelling all up and down both the North and South Islands, and it was one of my favorite places I've ever been, and I'm really looking forward to going back and spending more time there.

I've taken a lot of writing-intensive courses already, including a Comm B so this is not necessarily new to me. This time around, I would like to get better at spending time refining my writing instead of throwing words at a page and hoping they make sense.