<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/1108-catherine-headrick.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>The shoes she was designed to fill</title><author>Peter MacDonald</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>11/21/2024 11:10:35 AM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Catherine Headrick ’17 has the job of her dreams as a material and trend designer of performance footwear at New Balance.</description><category>Alumni Stories</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/1108-catherine-headrick-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Catherine Headrick ’17 at New Balance"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/1108-catherine-headrick-feature.jpg" alt="Catherine Headrick ’17 at New Balance"/></image><caption>Catherine Headrick ’17 at work designing textiles and specifying footwear material and finish combinations at the New Balance headquarters in Boston. (EMILY O'BRIEN PHOTOGRAPHY)</caption></item>