Meet a Colleague: Cat Hudson Cat Hudson is an AmeriCorps VISTA working with the Office of Community-Based Learning.

W&L News Office
September 18, 2024

Q. How long have you been working onsite at W&L?
About a month, but I was a student here for four years before graduating last May.

Q. What do you like most about working on the W&L campus?
I like all of the mountains that surround Lexington and how beautiful they’ll look in the fall!

Q. Where is your favorite location on the W&L campus?
My favorite spot on campus is the bench on the colonnade in front of Tucker hall. It’s been a very comforting place for me since my freshman year as an undergrad during the height of the pandemic.

Q. Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, a town slightly bigger than Lexington.

Q. What is the most adventurous thing that you have ever done?
I have gone skydiving twice in my life!

Q. What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not working?
My favorite thing to do when I’m not working is yoga or watching a movie or television show.

Q. If you could live anywhere, where would you build your dream home?
I would build my dream home on several acres of land somewhat close to a medium-sized city.

Q. Who most inspires you?
I most inspire myself because no matter how hard things get, I always push through and keep going. I’m proud of myself for that.

Q. What book are you reading now?
I am reading Elliot Page’s memoir “Pageboy.”

Q. What music are you listening to these days?
I listen to a lot of indie, R&B and alternative rock. My top artist right now is Mitski because I just went to one of her concerts near Baltimore!

Q. What is your favorite film (movie) of all time?
Right now, one of my favorite movies is “Drive Away Dolls.”

Q. What is the website you visit most often and why?
I visit the Marketplace website a lot to see what I might get for lunch!

Q. If they made a movie about your life, who would play you?
Brigette Lundy-Paine because they are one of my favorite nonbinary actors.

Q. Which historical figure do you most identify with and why?
Sylvia Plath because of her confessional nature in her poetry and writing that I have related to in the past.

Q. If you could have coffee with one person, who would it be and why?
I think it would be cool to have a conversation about gender with Judith Butler.

Q. What is your desert island food?
It’s not a food, but diet coke.

Q. Tell us something most people don’t know about you.
I have a twin sister named Claire.