Cat Moore is currently serving USC as the first Director of Belonging in the history of American higher education, pioneering a new field of Connecting as a practitioner-scholar. She is the course designer and instructor for CLICK and SPARK. She’s a philosopher and community-maker and the President and Co-Founder of ReHuman, a company that empowers digital users to connect on purpose on and off-screen.

Cat was scholarshipped to study the Human Condition at USC & the University of Edinburgh, graduating summa cum laude with honors in Philosophy for her work on the conditions for community and the transformation of social life through public spaces. She received fellowships to study engagement of culture through politics and religion with a political think tank and Yale faculty, respectively. For nearly ten years she apprenticed to Philosopher and Theologian, the late Dallas Willard (USC), participating in the development of work around the ethical basis of the professions in American life.

She partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to analyze the role of relationships and integrity in systemic change before directing communications for a non-profit that equips locals to transform their social contexts through cultivating relationships. For the last 7 years, she has been partnering with leaders across industries to prototype models for organic connecting. Her work has been studied by universities, featured in media outlets, and received several grants.