Having attended Michael Mount Waldorf School in Johannesburg, Kathy went on to join the South Africa Ballet Company before attending Emerson College. In 1988 she began teaching at Titirangi Steiner School in Aukland, where she still teaches today, and in 2006 started coordinating the Steiner Teacher EDE qualification at AUT University and Taruna College in New Zealand. Kathy has been coordinating teacher education and training in China and Thailand since 2010, and is particularly interested in how Waldorf education translates around the world.