Caterina is an Emmy-nominated journalist and documentary filmmaker from Valparaiso, Chile. She is currently a producer/shooter/writer at ABC News, where she covers domestic and international stories.  

Caterina has produced dozens of mid and long-form stories for ABC News, such as Uvalde: The Struggle to Understand (2023 Emmy Award nominee - Outstanding Recorded News Special / 2023 Imagen Award Winner, Best Informational Program), THC: The Human Cost (Winner of Ñ Award for Covering Latino Issues, NAHJ), the Hulu special “Exodus: Global Migration”; the investigation “Families wait for more than a decade for affordable housing”; and “The woman running a secret school network in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan." Caterina has field produced for ABC News in Mexico, Colombia, Panama and all over the United States. 

Previously, Caterina produced the documentary Almost American (Dir. Nina Alvarez), a film about the end of Temporary Protected Status that aired on PBS in 2024. The film received support from ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, International Documentary Association (IDA) and JustFilms, among otherw. Caterina was also an Associate Producer for the documentary Sanson and Me (Tribeca, Sheffield Doc Fest, PBS), directed by Rodrigo Reyes.

In 2019, Caterina produced and was first assistant director for the short narrative film Away, Together (Santa Fe Film Festival, Reel Asian), directed by Sana Malik. 

In Chile, Caterina worked as an investigative reporter for Megavision, producing dozens of short documentaries for television. Her stories led to the opening of criminal investigations against public officials, including former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his wife, senators and representatives. Her work has been nominated for the Excellence in Journalism Award in Chile, Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award in Chile and RELE Award, given by the Latin American Conference for Investigative Journalism (COLPIN). She was awarded an Iris America award in 2017, given by Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana and Academia de las Ciencias y Artes de Television of Spain, for her investigation on Augusto Pinochet.
 
Caterina is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where she specialized in documentary filmmaking. At Columbia, she directed, produced, and edited One of the Band, a short documentary about two immigrant teenagers adapting to life in the United States, which won the Fred M. Hechinger Excellence in Education Journalism Award. During her time at Columbia, she also worked on a New York Times investigation on McKinsey & Co., which was recognized with an Overseas Press Award.