Catherine Armstrong

Director | Carolina Textile District

Born and raised in rural North Carolina, Catherine is passionate about revitalizing the industry that supported so many rural communities in the state and using business as a mechanism to create sustainable change. Catherine is the 2016 recipient of the Dr. James R. Leutze Merit Scholarship Endowment at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where she studied Business Administration with concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Management, and Spanish. During her time at UNCW, she represented the university abroad in Russia, Argentina, and Iceland. Before CTD, Catherine worked for MISSIO Hair—a social impact company leveraging the beauty industry to fight human trafficking; tekMountain where she traveled the world researching social impact ecosystems; and HALF UNITED—a social impact brand working to fight hunger worldwide. In her free time, Catherine enjoys traveling, sewing garments with heirloom textiles, discovering new music, and finding new places to watch the sunset.