Katrin Madayag
Reporter

photo by Michelle Gomes

Katrin Madayag is the consummate Midwesterner, from her use of flat vowels to her mild obsession with Big Ten sports. She never fathomed that she’d make it to Montana.

Born in Chicago and raised in its northwest suburbs, the print journalism graduate student never strayed far from her home. Katrin graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied political science and the Classics – Cicero was her hero. She found peace on “her rock” on the Lake Michigan shore. 

After a short but memorable semester at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management, Katrin developed an antipathy for professional politics and the D.C. lifestyle.

Katrin was caught up in the hullabaloo of the “quarter-life crisis” and she needed a change. Lucky to have a pioneering friend who moved to Bozeman, Katrin turned her gaze to graduate school in the distant, hazy land of Montana.

And so, Katrin’s determination and pluck landed her at UM, where she studied for her master’s degree in political science. Upon its completion, she entered the J-school for her second graduate degree.

Katrin juggles three jobs in her “spare time” yet still finds time to draw (black-and-white in pen or graphite only – she has yet to master the color wheel). Often, Katrin likes to stand in her backyard, which overlooks the Clark Fork River. And too frequently, she tries to perfect her game on Super Mario Strikers while listening to B96, WDRV or WXRT streaming live online from Chicago on her laptop.

Although she has loved her two years in Missoula, Katrin’s looking forward to hitching it all up someday and trekking back home, where she hopes to settle down eventually and find meaningful (and financially rewarding) employment as a political reporter or copy editor.

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