Dr. Catherine Binuya’s role at the Institute for Capacity Building allows her to contribute to strategic planning, support institutional partners, assist with program manager supervision, and collaborate across teams to bolster the success of the UNCF community.

Catherine was born in the Philippines, grew up in South Carolina, and moved to Georgia for graduate school. Prior to joining ICB, she spent 20 years working across multi-disciplinary fields in higher education to build online educational programs, policies, protocols, operations and institutional student services–all with a central focus on expanding equity of educational access and helping institutions achieve scalable success through building and improving effective, efficient systems.

Catherine has a bachelor of science in biology, a bachelor of arts in psychology, a master’s degree in community counseling and a doctorate of education in student affairs leadership. She is a member of the Project Management Institute-Atlanta Chapter and currently serves as the forum summary writer for the PMI-Atlanta Architectural, Engineering & Construction Special Interests Group. Her last name, Binuya, rhymes with “Glad I-Knew-Yah!”