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Nice Try, Universe

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Nice Try, Universe

Nice Try, Universe is a 2x/month telegram through Substack.

- Thawing Lonely Bones

- Napping is a Team Sport

- It's Such a Wonderful Thing To Love

- Becoming a Listening Presence

- Cupcake Bias (underestimating sweet people)

- No One Uses Mental Health Language

Book (in progress)

Cat is represented by Folio Literary Management, New York, NY.

At Home in Los Angeles

An essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on how to create a sense of home wherever you are...

National Speaker

TEDx: You belong: lessons from 10,000 coffee chats

Cat on KCRW - How to Make a Friend

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TEDx Talk: Creating Nests of Belonging

Media Resource

Partnering with ABC this year covering loneliness in the U.S.

CLICK!, Cat's pioneering class on making meaningful connections, is featured in the NYT bestseller, Soul Boom.

Robots cannot replace human friendships - Salon article

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Featured + Cited

How to LA - The LAist

LA can be lonely AF: Reframing a Loneliness "epidemic" with Cat Moore

In a Social Funk? Pickleball, Dance + Other Physical Activities

LA Times

Viral Op-Ed by Dean Soni highlighting the creation of my role as Director of Belonging in response to the loneliness crisis.

Salon Q + A

How to find friends and community during the pandemic.

KCRW's Press Play

When interviewed by Rainn Wilson of The Office around loneliness, my dean mentions CLICK! as the most popular class on campus.

Spectrum News

Spotlight piece on CLICK!

Alone Together - Backslash Media Article

Interviewed for this piece surveying the loneliness landscape.

She+ Geeks Out Podcast

Deep dive into the backstory behind the work and its relevance in this current moment.

Salon's Holiday Connecting Story

Quoted as a loneliness expert helping us recognize our normal social need for connecting, as a form of social hunger.

USC News Feature

The work on belonging at USC and beyond + its origin story, online.

Annenberg Media Wellness Feature

With a wellbeing lens on loneliness, this article was put together by some undergrad superstars.

Re-HUMAN your workplace

Check out this clip from the Own Your Space podcast

She+ Geeks Out Interview

How can we use the COVID disruption to reorganize our lives around belonging?

Q + A with Salon

The New Social Frontier post-covid: becoming a pioneer

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