Introducing Katherine Duran

Erin McCune

January 5, 2009

I am delighted to introduce you to Katherine Duran, my new research analyst. She’ll be contributing to ForteBlog twice a week and working with me on upcoming articles. She’s a recent graduate of Mills College Lokey Graduate School of Business and a Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco scholarship winner. Plus she’s a foodie like me and she’s got a great sense of humor. You can learn more about her here.

Katherine and I have been working on an annotated index of the best credit crisis coverage (so far). We’re putting the finishing touches on it, so keep an eye out.

Welcome, Katherine!

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