Cathlin Goulding, Ed.D., co-directs YURI Education Project, an education consultancy that develops resources for cultural institutions and PK-12 students. She started in the education field as an English Language Arts teacher at a public high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. She trained as an education researcher at Teachers College, Columbia University, and served as an Andrew W. Mellon 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. As the daughter and granddaughter of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, the concentration camp is a key area of inquiry.

With YURI co-director Freda Lin, she has created educational materials to accompany the educational video game Mission U.S. They worked on education guides for the documentaries Rising Up Against Asian Hate: One Day in March and Free Chol Soo Lee as well as curriculum for the PBS docuseries American Masters and It’s Lit!. As an independent curriculum designer, she wrote an anti-cyberbullying curriculum for David's Legacy Foundation and developed The Peace Studio’s creative peacebuilding toolkit.

She teaches future public school teachers and instructional leaders at the City University of New York, San José State University, and Teachers College, Columbia University. She lives in Queens, New York with her husband, Kevin, and their cats, Birdy and Bossnova.