Catherine Emmanuelle

Catherine Nicole Emmanuelle (born January 14, 1980) is an At-Large Member of the Eau Claire City Council. She is a Democrat. Life and career Emmanuelle was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in the Bay Area. Catherine started working in the fifth grade, at her first job as a paper delivery girl. She went on to work as a server in a restaurant, and an employee at Blue Cross and Blue Shield. She was one of two Californian representatives on a nationwide research project. After visiting all 50 states and surveying 13,000 teenagers for a nonprofit organization, Emmanuelle decided to move to Eau Claire in 2000. Emmanuelle became a displaced homemaker and single mother in 2007. During her time as a nontraditional student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Emmanuelle worked as an Intern for U.S. Senator Herb Kohl. Emmanuelle also worked on the re-election campaign of Kathleen Vinehout. In September 2012, Emmanuelle was appointed to the Eau Claire City Council to fill the seat left vacant by new State Representative Dana Wachs. In 2013, she was elected to the seat. Notably, she is the first Latina elected in the community's history. In addition to serving on the City Council, Emmanuelle serves on the board of directors for Visit Eau Claire, and on the City of Eau Claire appointments committee, economic policy advisory committee, and affirmative action committee. Catherine works for The University of Wisconsin-Extension as the first Area Extension Director for Chippewa, Dunn, and Eau Claire Counties. She serves with colleagues to bring the Wisconsin Idea alive through transformational education in the tri-county area. Before this role, she was a family living educator for the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, where she partnered with organizations and people to build family resilience through complex social issues, alternatives to incarceration, treatment and diversion courts, immigrant families, and community leadership development.