Kathi comes from a background in music. Considered a "child prodigy", she started playing piano at the age of 4 and as a young girl she won the Chopin Piano Award and the Bank of America Award for Fine Arts for the state of California. Among her numerous competitions, concerts and recitals she played her own composition at the UNICEF concert at San Jose State University and she performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 with the Sequoia Symphony Orchestra, for which she composed her own cadenzas. All this before graduating from high school.

However, Kathi decided she wanted to branch out, preferring to add 'contemporary' music to her repertoire, and soon she was working as a singer in the major showrooms of Las Vegas, Tahoe and Reno, either as a featured singer or opening act for Bill Cosby, Roy Clark, Peggy Fleming and others.

Then it was on to Los Angeles where Kathi started working in the studio, as a recording artist (she currently has a CD on iTunes), and as an actress. To date Kathi has starred in eleven independent features, including Dead Right, Double Cross and Below the Surface, 7 television pilots, over a dozen segments of the critically-acclaimed Interview series, as well as being the star and icon of the innovative internet soap opera Confessions.

Kathi added writing and directing to her skillset several years ago, completing two full-length "student" films, writing and directing over half of the segments of the Confessions series and, more recently, completing the award-winning short film Reflections of a Life, -- a love story of a woman who has experienced and overcome her share of heartache, only to discover she has breast cancer. The film explores how this devastating news affects her relationships with her friends, her family and her lover. Of Reflections Kathi says, "I wanted to create an unusually intimate story, as well as challenge myself as a writer/director so I set the story in one location and once I positioned the camera -- I never moved it. And yet, I didn't want the audience to feel claustrophobic -- I wanted to give them the rhythm and visual experience of any 'traditional' film...I figured it would either work brilliantly or be a complete flop!" So far, those in the industry, in fact everyone who has seen the film agrees -- it's a complete success! In fact, it worked so well that many people have no idea that she never moved the camera at all.

After completing the festival run for Reflections of a Life, Kathi wrote and directed another short film, Worth, which has garnered an unprecedented 25 awards in its first 9 months on the festival circuit, as well as being a finalist at two Academy-qualifying festivals. Kathi says of her work, "A film can change someone's life. This fact influences every aspect of my films from subject matter to casting...I like to give the audiences something unexpected, something to think about long after the end credits have rolled." This multi-layered piece is capturing the fascination of audiences from South Korea to Australia.

Kathi is currently funding the package for her features One in Nine and All For the Best as well as writing and developing several other features.