Caitlin made her crossover from print journalism to broadcast media so that she could make the best use of her two greatest strengths: talking and writing. Previously, Caitlin worked as a reporter for Sports Illustrated China, interviewing the likes of Usain Bolt (the fastest man in the world ran three hours late for their interview), Liu Xiang (who hurdles gates to avoid reporters) and Cal Ripken, Jr. (who was incredibly gracious when Caitlin went to the wrong embassy building and had to sprint into their interview, sweaty and late). Prior to SI China, Caitlin worked as P.J. O'Rourke's his left hand (libertarian O'Rourke needed an assistant to balance out his right-leaning tendencies).

Caitlin graduated from Amherst College summa cum laude with a degree in Ethnography of Race, a major she created in a roguish act of academic vigilantism. She studied abroad in Beijing in 2005, and "conducted thesis research" at the National Library in Beijing in 2006, which consisted of wandering around the Chinese stacks in confusion until she happened upon the perfect resource -- written by a professor at the university down the road from hers in the US.

A New Hampshire native, Caitlin writes a bi-weekly column for The Keene Sentinel about her life in China. The fact that she's written it for two years now shows just how much she has to say.

Brevity is not her strength.