Cathlin Goulding, Ed.D., is a curriculum designer and education researcher.

She is an Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College, The City University of New York, where she teaches social studies methods and supervises clinical fieldwork.

She began her career in education as an English Language Arts teacher at a public high school in the East San Francisco Bay Area. She trained as an education researcher at Teachers College, Columbia University. After completing her doctorate, she served as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral research fellow at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and New York University.

Her research and writings focus on place-based learning, public pedagogy, and the teaching of historical violence. Her Japanese American grandparents and mother were incarcerated during World War II at the Jerome and Gila River prison camps. The concentration camp is a key area of inquiry and curriculum design.

In 2019, she co-founded YURI Education Project with Freda Lin. United in their goal of bringing more Asian American stories to PK-12 students, they launched an education consulting project. For YURI, she has created and consulted on educational materials for the WNET Group, Sesame Workshop, Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery and Asian Pacific American Center, WETA, ITVS, Peace Studio, David’s Legacy Foundation, Fred T. Korematsu Institute, Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers, Mikva Challenge, and New York City Department of Education.

Her favorite work is mentoring teachers as they design learning experiences for adolescents. She has taught future public school teachers and instructional leaders at Teachers College, Columbia University, Long Island University, and San José State University.

She lives in Queens, New York, with her husband, Kevin, and the grey tuxedo cats, Birdy and Bossanova.