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Cate grew up in the Quad Cities area of IL/IA and graduated from St. Ambrose University with a degree in theatre. She found herself on several different career paths as she struggled to find her place in the world, including, but not limited to blacksmithing, slam poetry, costume design, wedding dress alteration, competitive broadsword fighting, and managing the marketing and VIP engagement department at a riverboat casino. 

After earning two masters degrees in Shakespeare from Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, VA, Cate worked as assistant stage manager and company member at the American Shakespeare Center. 

After accepting the position as Entertainment Director at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, Cate relocated to Atlanta, GA and worked as an actor, magician and teaching artist until the beginning of the pandemic, when she lost her job and started making tiktoks about her experiences living with ADHD and depression. 

In a little over a year, as @catieosaurus on TikTok, Cate has built an audience of over one and a half million followers with an average of 30-50 million monthly views. She is also a Twitch Partner, Youtuber and host of Sorry I Missed This, an award-winning educational podcast hosted by Understood.org. Her combined monthly audience across all platforms reaches to the hundreds of millions. 

As Cate began to realize the importance of these conversations, she worked to earn her certification as a Certified Sex Educator and Intimacy Coach,and has extensively worked to raise awareness about the need for inclusivity and accessibility for disability and neurodiversity in the kink and BDSM communities, attending several conventions and working as an educator and activist in that community. 

As host of Sorry I Missed This, she saw the podcast rise to popularity in the neurodivergent community for its frank discussions on living with ADHD and depression. The success of Sorry I Missed This led to a book deal with Simon and Schuster in 2025, and her book, the ADHD Field Guide For Adults, became an instant bestseller with overwhelmingly positive feedback for its accessible layout, practical advice, and vulnerable, lived-experience essays about her experiences as an undiagnosed adult struggling to keep up. 

In 2026, she began touring Wildly Unprepared live- a semi-improvised, neurodivergent-friendly one-woman comedy/storytelling show that has performed to sold out audiences across the country. 

Her other podcast, Infinite Quest found its stride in the gaming community after they launched ADHDnD, a live-play DnD game that highlights disability and neurodiversity in real play. Their enthusiasm for table top games opened discussions about inclusivity and neurodiversity in TTRPGs and console gaming in a long-form format for an audience of around 250,000 listeners.

Her work has been seen in Cosmopolitan Magazine, The New York Times, Haaretz, GQ, VICE, Medium, Mashable, Bustle, InStyle, and more. She's been seen on the American Sex Podcast with Sunny Megatron, The Mental Illness Happy Hour with Paul Gilmartin, Prodigy, The Doctors, Carte Blanche, and a host of others. 

Cate has performed in spaces like the Kennedy Center, Circa 21 Dinner theatre, the American Shakespeare Center, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Resurgens Classical Theatre and worked as a teaching artist at dozens of schools and universities across the country.

Her most recent convention appearances include DragonCon, ECCC, Pax Unplugged, MomoCon, GenCon, PlayOnCon, GameHole Con, GeekBeacon Fest (and several more) this year, where she hosted several panels on inclusivity, accessibility and neurodivergence at the gaming table as well as doing live show podcast recordings with various actual plays.