Independent documentary film director and producer, Catherine Murphy, works at the intersection of documentary film, social justice, and education in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. She is the Founder & Director of The Literacy project (http://theliteracyproject.org), a documentary oral history project that collects personal testimonies about literacy using documentary storytelling to connect with and strengthen present-day movements for literacy and education justice. She is also the Senior Advisor for The Cuba Platform (https://cubaplatform.org), an initiative that fosters collaboration between Cuba and Atlantic Fellows through convening and audiovisual work. Four short stories based on her interviews were published in Eduardo Galeano's most recent book, Espejos.

As an independent producer, Murphy's work has largely focused on social documentaries. She has field produced films like Saul Landau's Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?, Eugene Corr's From Ghost Town to Havana, served on the production crew of Gay Cuba; and subtitled Stealing America by Dorothy Fadiman, Jaime Kibben's The Greening of Cuba, and Out and Refusenicks by Sonja de Vries. She also served an archival researcher for Susanne Rostock's recent biography of Harry Belafonte, Sing Your Song.

Murphy served as senior staff producer at the TeleSur TV Washington bureau in 2006 and has produced content for PBS, TeleSur, Avila TV, Pacifica Radio National, WBAI and KPFA. While in Caracas in 2009, she founded Tres Musas Producciones, a collaborative production house of independent women producers working in film, music and literature.