Catherine "Cie" Stroud has diverse interests and experience in the field of visual communication.

Currently, she has a freelance photography business, Catherine Stroud Photography, taking executive portraiture, editorial, event and PR photographs mostly on location. In her business, she has photographed events from investor meetings of Sanofi-Aventis in New York to awards dinners of the IEEE in Florida.

For six years concurrently, she was a staff photographer for The Times (Trenton, New Jersey) and for the last 3 years has continued to freelance for the paper. While photographing for The Times, Cie won 16 Press Association awards and her assignments included President Bush, President Clinton, the 7-day Anchor House Ride for Runaways from Trenton, Ontario, Canada to Trenton, New Jersey, the Millennium March on Washington for Equality in DC and Dreamlift in Orlando, Florida.

Her news photographs have been published in numerous newspapers including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Previously, Cie managed the electronic production of periodicals for a northern New Jersey medical publisher, CD's for two subsidiaries of Kodak and imagery for several photographic service bureaus in New York.

She has taught photography at Mercer County Community College, Princeton Adult School, Ellarslie and privately.

Cie was a trustee of the Trenton Museum Society and is a member of the New Jersey Press Photographers Association, Editorial Photographers and the American Society of Media Photographers.

She volunteered as photographer and web master for the science garden Quark Park in Princeton, New Jersey, was chosen as web master for the New Jersey Press Photographers Association (and also serves as its Interim Vice President) and also designed and built this web site.

Cie studied documentary photography and photojournalism at the Ohio University School of Visual Communication. Earlier she studied fine art photography at the State University of New York in both Buffalo and Albany.

Cie has lived in several towns along the Hudson and Delaware River Valleys and in Barcelona, Spain.