Catherine Girardeau is a San Francisco-based writer and audio producer.

She’s worked as Executive Producer at Pushkin Industries, where she is a co-founding producer of Against the Rules, a narrative podcast hosted by bestselling author/journalist Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short). Her other Pushkin projects include Legacy of Speed, a documentary podcast about sprinting and social justice hosted by Malcolm Gladwell; Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare with the Old Globe Theatre; and the science podcast Incubation, about viruses. Her independent work includes Above the Fog, a podcast about walking and spirituality made as podcaster-in-residence at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, Viewpoints: Body Language, a media project with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and radio features for PRI, NPR stations and the public radio program Marketplace. She’s worked as a producer for Marketplace, the Stanford Storytelling Project, and museum media company Antenna International. Her essays have been published in Terrain Magazine.